SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS)
SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS) provides small organizations, enterprises and service providers with flexible, powerful and intuitive tools to centralize security policy management for anywhere from a few to thousands of remote SonicWALL Internet security appliances, VPN and security services such as Anti-Virus and Content Filtering.
SonicWALL GMS scales with growing networks and offers centralized reporting and monitoring, distributed management, and redundancy and load balancing to guarantee maximum productivity. For enterprise customers, SonicWALL GMS streamlines security policy management and appliance deployment, minimizing administration overhead. For Service Providers, SonicWALL GMS simplifies multiple clients' security management and creates additional revenue opportunities.
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Enforcement of Corporate Policies
SonicWALL GMS reduces administration time, costs and complexity associated with establishing and maintaining corporate security and VPN policies.
Policy-Based Device Management
SonicWALL GMS software automatically replicates policies across one or more connections and eliminates repetitive policy changes. With the Group Settings Inheritance filtering mechanism, SonicWALL GMS provides flexibility and ease of use in importing group settings to newly added devices.
Centralized reporting
SonicWALL GMS provides graphical reports of firewall and network activities to provide insight into usage trends and security events of one or all of the managed SonicWALL appliances.
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. Monitoring capabilities can also be based on SNMP traps relayed to a 3rd party SNMP management system.
Distributed Security Management
SonicWALL GMS can be managed from any secure web browser reducing the need to focus administration resources in one location. It also provides a flexible way to segment and distribute management responsibility among a group of individuals with each individual given a set of privileges to a logical view of the managed devices.
Scalable Architecture
SonicWALL GMS scales to meet the needs of growing businesses. From as few as 5 to thousands of appliances, SonicWALL GMS incorporates and manages new appliances seamlessly as they are installed.
Firewall Management, Load Balancing and Redundancy
SonicWALL GMS supports redundancy management of firewalls and load balances to maximize up time and efficiently distribute bandwidth.
Auto-Update Service for Firmware and GMS Patches
SonicWALL GMS sends automatic alerts of new firmware and GMS patch updates when they are available on Mysonicwall.com for download, ensuring network administrators keep their network security management current.
Diagnostic Tools
SonicWALL GMS exposes the firewall diagnostic tools in the user interface and offers GMS specific diagnostics tools for effective troubleshooting of Internet access, management and networking issues.