Preparing an SMA Appliance

This section describes the local configuration steps required on the individual SMA appliance before adding it to SonicWALL GMS management. See the following subsections:

•	Preparing SMA Appliances

•	Preparing E-Class SMA Appliances

Preparing SMA Appliances

To prepare a SonicWALL SMA appliance (non-Aventail) for GMS management:

1	Log in to your SonicWALL SMA. Navigate to System > Management.

2	In Management Method, select GMS under Enable Management Using.

3	Type the GMS host name or IP Address of the GMS server in the GMS HostName or IPAddress field.

4	Type the GMS Syslog server port in the Syslog Server Port field. The default port is 514.

5	Click Apply.

Preparing E-Class SMA Appliances

There are specific requirements for preparing the SonicWALL Aventail EX-Series SMA appliance for GMS management:

•	SonicWALL Aventail EX-Series SMA appliances must be licensed before you can enable GMS management in the Aventail Management Console.

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When enabling GMS on a SonicWALL Aventail appliance, select Enable single sign-on for AMC configuration if you want direct access to the Aventail Management Console from the SonicWALL GMS right-click menu. If this check box is cleared, you can still open the AMC from the right-click menu, but you must enter your appliance login credentials.

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The SonicWALL Aventail EX-Series SMA appliance allows HTTPS access only to its LAN port(s), and not to its WAN port(s). This means that when SonicWALL GMS is deployed outside of the Aventail LAN subnet(s), management traffic must be routed from GMS to a gateway that allows access into the LAN network, and from there be routed to the Aventail LAN port.

To prepare a SonicWALL Aventail EX-Series SMA appliance for GMS management:

1	Log in to your SonicWALL Aventail EX-Series SMA.

2	Click General Settings in the main Aventail Management Console (AMC) navigation menu.

3	Click Edit in the Centralized management area.

4	Select Enable GMS management, and then enter the host name or IP address of the GMS console, and its port number.

5	In the Heartbeat interval text box, set the interval (in seconds) at which the appliance indicates its readiness to send a report on authentication-related events, in addition to status information. An interval of 60 seconds is typical.

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Select Enable single sign-on for AMC configuration if you want to be able to open the Aventail Management Console and make changes to its configuration from within GMS. If this setting is cleared, you can still open AMC, but you must first enter your AMC login credentials; this is less convenient, but more secure.

7	Select Send only heartbeat status messages if you want to only manage the appliance and not create reports for the appliance.

For more information about preparing SonicWALL Aventail appliances for SonicWALL GMS management, see the SonicWALL GMS Aventail EX-Series Appliance Management feature module and the SonicWALL / Aventail EX-Series Installation and Administration Guide on the SonicWALL Support Web site:
https://support.software.dell.com/sonicwall-gms/release-notes-guides