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 Standard Edition 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.
Cost Effective.
SonicWALL GMS delivers a cost-effective global
management solution that reduces staffing requirements, speeds up
deployment, and lowers the cost of delivering services by centralizing the
management security policies.
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.
Integrated ViewPoint
Reporting.
SonicWALL GMS provides graphical reporting of
firewall and network activities for the managed SonicWALL network security
appliances with SonicWALL ViewPoint. With SonicWALL ViewPoint,
administrators can generate a wide range of informative real time and
historical reports to provide insight into usage trends and security events
of the managed SonicWALL network security appliances.
