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The award-winning SonicWALL® Global Management System (GMS) provides organizations, distributed enterprises and service providers with a flexible, powerful and intuitive solution to centrally manage and rapidly deploy SonicWALL firewall, anti-spam, backup and recovery, and secure remote access solutions. Flexibly deployed as software, hardware—in the form of the Universal Management Appliance (UMA)—or a virtual appliance, SonicWALL GMS also provides centralized real-time monitoring, and comprehensive policy and compliance reporting to drive down the cost of owning and managing SonicWALL security appliances.  Multiple GMS software, hardware, and virtual appliance agents, when deployed in a cluster, can scale to manage up to thousands of SonicWALL security appliances. This makes GMS an ideal solution for small- to medium-sized businesses, enterprises and managed service providers that have either single-site or distributed multi-site environments. 

SC Magazine on the Global Management System: "Great dashboard and drill down report capabilities." read the review »

Features & benefits.

Tight integration.

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 easily configure settings for SonicWALL firewall, anti-spam, backup and recovery, and secure remote access products and add SonicWALL upgrade and subscription services, such as Gateway Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and Intrusion Prevention Service, Client/Server Anti-Virus Suite and Content Filtering Service with the click of a button.

Cost effective.

SonicWALL GMS delivers a cost-effective global security management solution that reduces staffing requirements, speeds up deployment and lowers the cost of managing security services.

Flexible deployment options.

SonicWALL GMS can be flexibly deployed as a software application on a third party Windows® server (leveraging existing infrastructure), as a SonicWALL E-Class Universal Management Appliance (leveraging a hardened high-performance appliance), or as a SonicWALL GMS Virtual Appliance in a VMware® environment (further leveraging shared computing resources to optimize server utilization, ease migration and reduce capital costs).

Easy policy management.

SonicWALL GMS allows administrators to easily create security policies for the SonicWALL network security, backup and recovery, anti-spam, and secure remote access solutions and enforce them at the global, group or unit level.

In-depth reporting.

SonicWALL GMS allows administrators to generate a wide range of informative and historical reports to provide insight into usage trends, such as which Web sites have been accessed by whom and security events of your managed SonicWALL appliances.

System requirements.
Java
  • Java Plug-in version 1.5 or later
Operating System
  • Microsoft® Environment: Windows Server 2003 32 bit and 64 bit (SP2), Windows Server 2008 SBS 64 bit, Windows Server 2008 Standard 32 bit and 64 bit (SP1).
  • In all instances SonicWALL GMS is running as a 32 bit application.
Hardware for Single Server Deployment
  • x86 Environment: Minimum 3 GHz processor Server dual-core CPU Intel processor, 4 GB RAM and 300 GB disk space.
Hardware for Distributed Server Deployment
  • GMS Server x86 Environment: Minimum 3 GHz processor single-CPU Intel processor, 2 GB RAM and 300 GB disk space.
  • Database Server x86 Environment: Minimum 3 GHz processor dual-core CPU Intel processor, 2 GB RAM and 300 GB disk space.
Virtual Appliance Requirements
  • Hypervisor: VMware ESX and ESXi
  • Operation System Installed: Hardened SonicLinux
  • Appliance Size:  250GB to 950GB
  • Allocated Memory:  3GB
  • VMware Hardware Compatibility Guide:  See here.

 

GMS Gateway
  • SonicWALL E-Class NSA, NSA or PRO Series Network Security Appliance with minimum firmware and SonicWALL VPN-based Network Security Appliances1
Hardware for Distributed GMS Server Deployment
  • x86 Environment: Minimum 3 GHz processor single-CPU Intel processor, 2 GB RAM, and 300 GB disk space
Supported Databases
  • External Databases: Microsoft SQL 2000 (SP4), Microsoft SQL 2005 32 bit and 64 bit (SP2), Microsoft SQL 2008 (SP1) 64 bit, MySQL 32 bit
  • Bundled with the GMS application: MySQL
Supported SonicWALL Appliances Managed by GMS
  • SonicWALL Network Security appliances: E-Class NSA, NSA, PRO Series, TZ Series appliances3
  • SonicWALL Continuous Data Protection appliances
  • SonicWALL Content Security Manager (CSM) appliances
  • SonicWALL Secure Remote Access appliances: E-Class SRA and SSL VPN for SMB
  • SonicWALL Email Security appliances
  • All TCP/IP and SNMP-enabled devices and applications for active monitoring
Internet Browsers
  • Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
  • Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or higher
  • Supported only on Microsoft Windows platforms
Java
  • Java Plug-in version 1.6 or later
Supported SonicWALL Firmware
  • SonicWALL Network Security Appliances:  E-Class NSA and NSA SonicOS Enhanced 5.0 or higher
  • SonicWALL PRO Series Appliances: SonicOS Enhanced 3.2 or higher
  • SonicWALL TZ Series Appliances: SonicOS Standard 3.1 or higher and SonicOS Enhanced 3.2 or higher
  • SonicWALL CDP Appliances: SonicWALL CDP 2.3 or higher 
  • SonicWALL CSM Appliances: SonicWALL 2.0 or higher
  • SonicWALL SRA Appliances: SonicWALL SSL VPN SMB Firmware 2.0 or higher and SonicWALL Aventail E-Class SSL VPN Firmware 9.0 or higher
  • • SonicWALL Email Security Appliances: SonicWALL Email Security 7.0 firmware

Purchase information.

Software
Product Nodes SKU
SonicWALL GMS Software 10 Nodes 01-SSC-3363
  25 Nodes 01-SSC-3311
Software Upgrades
Upgrade Options Nodes SKU
SonicWALL GMS Software Upgrade 1 Node 01-SSC-7662
  5 Nodes 01-SSC-3350
  10 Nodes 01-SSC-7664
  25 Nodes 01-SSC-3301
  100 Nodes 01-SSC-3303
  250 Nodes 01-SSC-3304
  1,000 Nodes 01-SSC-3306
Software Support
Support Option Nodes SKU
SonicWALL GMS E-Class 24x7 Software Support (1 yr.)2 1 Node 01-SSC-7675
  5 Nodes 01-SSC-6524
  10 Nodes 01-SSC-6514
  25 Nodes 01-SSC-3334
  100 Nodes 01-SSC-3336
  250 Nodes 01-SSC-3337
  1,000 Nodes 01-SSC-3338
SonicWALL Comprehensive GMS E-Class Support 24X7 1 Node 01-SSC-7679
  5 Nodes 01-SSC-3354
  10 Nodes 01-SSC-3353
  25 Nodes 01-SSC-3374
  100 Nodes 01-SSC-3376
  1,000 Nodes 01-SSC-3377
Note: E-Class support sold separately. E-Class support required purchase with GMS.
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