The Global
Management System Standard Edition provides a scalable, cost-effective
security management system for SonicWALL network security appliances and
security services.
SonicWALL Global Management
System Standard Edition (SonicWALL GMS) enables distributed enterprises and
service providers to manage thousands of SonicWALL network security
appliances from a central location. SonicWALL GMS delivers cost-effective
global management solution that reduces staffing requirements, speeds up
deployment, and lowers the cost of managing security services.
Extending SonicWALL’s renowned ease-of-use management
interface, SonicWALL GMS provides a highly scalable, sophisticated security
management system for geographically distributed networks. SonicWALL GMS gives
administrators the integrated tools to manage all security policies and
services throughout a large-scale, multiple policy enterprise or service
provider environment.
Administrators can configure SonicWALL firewall settings as
well as SonicWALL upgrade and subscription services, such as VPN, network
anti-virus and content filtering. Security policies can be centrally pushed to
SonicWALL network security appliances on an individual, group, or global
basis over encrypted VPN tunnels to ensure maximum security.
The SonicWALL GMS distributed architecture features
built-in redundancy and load balancing to ensure network security reliability
and efficient bandwidth distribution. With SonicWALL GMS, administrators can
segment and distribute security management responsibilities among a group of
individuals to enable flexible management across large distributed networks.
SonicWALL GMS also offers reporting capabilities, supports industry-leading
databases, and provides an easy-to-use Web-based user interface or command
line interface.
Global Management System Features and
Benefits
Comprehensive Security Management.
SonicWALL GMS provides network administrators
with configuration and management tools to globally define, distribute,
enforce and deploy the full range of security services and upgrades for
thousands of SonicWALL network security appliances.
Managed VPN Services.
SonicWALL GMS simplifies the task of globally
defining, distributing, enforcing and deploying VPN policies for managed VPN
gateways to keep all remote sites in synch with the latest security
policies.
Managed Remote VPN Client
Connections.
SonicWALL GMS allows administrators to define
user policies for remote Global VPN Client users. The user policies can then
either be emailed to remote users or be directly downloaded from the
SonicWALL VPN gateway.
Centralized Reporting.
SonicWALL GMS provides graphical reporting of firewall
and network activities to provide insight into usage trends and security
events of the managed SonicWALL Internet security appliances. The reports
can be customized to meet the look and feel requirements of the enterprises
and service providers.
Streamlined License
Management
SonicWALL GMS allows central license management
of the SonicWALL upgrade and subscription services. It simplifies the task
of storing, applying, tracking and updating upgrade and subscription license
information for all the managed SonicWALL network security appliances.
Multi-Tier Policy
Hierarchy Architecture.
SonicWALL GMS allows administrators to easily set
up a hierarchy to group SonicWALL network security appliances with similar
security profiles to provide network administrators with the flexibility to
manage the security policies on an individual, group and global level.
Distributed Security
Management.
SonicWALL GMS allows administrators to segment and
distribute management responsibility among a group of individuals.
Responsibilities can be assigned with different privileges for managed
SonicWALL network security appliances.
Customizable Viewing.
SonicWALL GMS allows the network administrators to
visualize the managed SonicWALL network security appliances at any logical
view. A view of a hierarchy of managed SonicWALL network security
appliances can be created using pre-defined or custom attributes.
Database and Business
Systems Integration.
SonicWALL GMS supports access to industry-leading
back-end databases for highly efficient and reliable data storage and
retrieval. It stores its configuration files and data in databases to
automatically be backed up and restored. SGMS also features a command line
interface to enable custom integration with business systems.
Centralized Monitoring
SonicWALL GMS includes monitoring capabilities for
fault and performance data analysis. Monitoring includes VPN and device
up/down status, VPN statistics, uptime calculations, and security events for
GMS management activities.
Support for SNMP
A powerful real-time alert mechanism greatly enhances the
administrator's ability to pinpoint and respond to critical events.
SonicWALL GMS can centrally receive firewall SNMP traps over the secure
management tunnel and forward them to an SNMP management system, ensuring
the security of firewall traps. GMS security events can also be forwarded to
the SNMP management system as SNMP traps.
