MSS FW Best Practices: CLI/Console

CAUTION: These documents are intended to provide partners with firewall configuration recommendations ONLY. They contain examples and caution should be exercised when making changes to your firewall as unplanned changed could result in downtime based on the complexity of the environment and/or configuration. 

MSS Recomended SonicWall Firewall Best Practices Index

There are 3 ways to CLI into a firewall.

1. Through the console port.
2. Via SSH through a firewall interface.
3. Via SSH Management through SonicOS.

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