SMA Tools

The General > Tools section provides the following options: Restart Appliance, Synchronize Now, Synchronize the Appliance with mysonicwall.com.

NOTE: The Restart Appliance option is not available for SonicWALL Aventail SMA appliances.

Restarting SMA

To restart the SMA appliance, complete the following tasks:

1	Click Restart Appliance. A confirmation pop-up displays.

 

2	Use the Scheduler to specify a date and time for SonicWALL GMS to execute the update.

It might take several minutes for the SMA to restart.

Synchronize Now

If a change is made to a SonicWALL appliance through any means other than through SonicWALL GMS, GMS is notified of the change through the syslog data stream. After the syslog notification is received, SonicWALL GMS schedules a task to synchronize its database with the local change. Auto-synchronization automatically occurs whenever SonicWALL GMS receives a local change notification status syslog message from a SonicWALL appliance.

You can also force synchronization at any time for a SonicWALL appliance or a group of SonicWALL appliances.

To synchronize the SMA appliance, complete the following tasks:

1	Click Synchronize Now. A confirmation pop-up displays.

 

2

Click OK.

3	Use the Scheduler to specify a date and time for SonicWALL GMS to execute the update.

It might take several seconds for SMA to synchronize.

Synchronizing with mysonicwall.com

SonicWALL appliances check their licenses and subscriptions with mysonicwall.com once every 24 hours. Using Synchronize the Appliance with mySonicWALL.com, you can force the SonicWALL SMA appliance to synchronize this information with mysonicwall.com immediately.

To synchronize the SMA appliance with mysonicwall.com, complete the following tasks:

1	Click Synchronize the Appliance with mysonicwall.com. A confirmation pop-up displays.

2	Click OK. The update scheduler displays.

3	Use the Scheduler to specify a date and time for SonicWALL GMS to execute the update.

It might take several seconds for the SMA to synchronize with mysonicwall.com.