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The Dell SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS) provides organizations, distributed enterprises and service providers with a powerful and intuitive solution to rapidly deploy and centrally manage Dell SonicWALL firewall, anti-spam, backup and recovery and secure remote access solutions. For enterprise customers, Dell SonicWALL GMS helps minimize administration overhead by streamlining security policy management and appliance deployment. Service providers can help create additional revenue opportunities by using GMS to simplify the security management of multiple clients. For added redundancy and scalability, GMS can be deployed in a cluster configuration.
Dell SonicWALL GMS can be flexibly implemented using three deployment options:
The Dell SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS) provides organizations, distributed enterprises and service providers with a powerful and intuitive solution to rapidly deploy and centrally manage Dell SonicWALL firewall, anti-spam, backup and recovery and secure remote access solutions. For enterprise customers, Dell SonicWALL GMS helps minimize administration overhead by streamlining security policy management and appliance deployment. Service providers can help create additional revenue opportunities by using GMS to simplify the security management of multiple clients. For added redundancy and scalability, GMS can be deployed in a cluster configuration.
Dell SonicWALL GMS can be flexibly implemented using three deployment options:
- As a software application on a third- party Windows® server (leveraging existing infrastructure),
- As a Dell SonicWALL E-Class Universal Management Appliance (UMA) EM5000 (leveraging a hardened, high-performance appliance)
- As a Dell SonicWALL GMS Virtual Appliance in a VMware® environment (further leveraging shared computing resources to optimize server utilization, ease migration and reduce capital costs)
Legend: S — Standard O — Optional N — Not Available
Regulatory Information:
Product Safety, EMC and Environmental Datasheets
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Dell and the Environment
| Solution | Analyzer | GMS |
| Reporting | S | S |
| Policy Management | N | S |
| Monitoring | N | S |
| GMS Mobile | N | S |
| Deployment Options | Analyzer | GMS |
| Deployable as Virtual Appliance | S | S |
| Deployable as Software Application | S | S |
| Deployable as a Universal Management Appliance (UMA) | N | S |
| Reporting | Analyzer | GMS |
| Comprehensive Set of Graphical Reports | S | S |
| Compliance Reporting | S | S |
| Customizable Reporting with Drill Down Capabilities | S | S |
| Centralized Logging | S | S |
| Multi-threat Reporting | S | S |
| User-based Reporting | S | S |
| Application Usage Reporting | S | S |
| New Attack Intelligence | S | S |
| Narrative Descriptions of Reports | S | S |
| Bandwidth and Services Report per Interface | S | S |
| Reporting for SonicWALL UTM Firewall Appliances | S | S |
| Reporting for SonicWALL SRA SSL VPN Appliances | S | S |
| Reporting for SonicWALL CDP Backup and Recovery Appliances | S | S |
| Universal Scheduled Reports | S | S |
| Next-generation Syslog-based Reporting | S | S |
| Flexible and Granular Near Real-Time Reporting | S | S |
| User-centric Reporting | S | S |
| Per User Bandwidth Reporting | S | S |
| More Granular Services Reporting | S | S |
| Client VPN Activity Reporting | S | S |
| More Detailed Summary of Services over VPN Report | S | S |
| Rogue Wireless Access Point Reporting | S | S |
| SRA SMB Web Application Firewall (WAF) Reporting | S | S |
| Management | Analyzer | GMS |
| Ubiquitous Access | S | S |
| Alerts and Notifications | S | S |
| Diagnostic Tools | S | S |
| State of the Art User Interface | S | S |
| Multiple Concurrent User Sessions | N | S |
| Offline Management and Scheduling | N | S |
| Management of Security Firewall Policies | N | S |
| Management of Security VPN Policies | N | S |
| Management of CDP Policies | N | S |
| Management of Email Security Policies | N | S |
| Management of Secure Remote Access/SSL VPN Policies | N | S |
| Management of Value Added Security Services | N | S |
| Define Policy Templates at the Group Level | N | S |
| Policy Replication from Device to a Group of Devices | N | S |
| Policy Replication from Group Level to a Single Device | N | S |
| Redundancy and High Availability | N | S |
| Provisioning Management | N | S |
| Scalable and Distributed Architecture | N | S |
| Dynamic Management Views | N | S |
| Unified License Manager | N | S |
| Command Line Interface (CLI) | N | S |
| Web Services Application Programming Interface (API) | N | S |
| Role Based Management (Users, Groups) | N | S |
| Universal Dashboard | N | S |
| Backup of preference files for firewall and SRA SMB appliances | N | S |
| Monitoring | Analyzer | GMS |
| IPFIX Data Flows in Real time | N | S |
| SNMP Support | for SonicWall devices | S |
| Active Device Monitoring and Alerting | S | S |
| SNMP Relay Management | N | S |
| VPN and Firewall Status Monitoring | S | S |
| Live Syslog Monitoring and Alerting | S | S |
| Field Replaceable Hard Drive | N | in UMA hardware |
Regulatory Information:
Product Safety, EMC and Environmental Datasheets
Dell Regulatory Compliance Home Page
Dell and the Environment

