• Secure Mobile Access 12.4
• About This Guide
• CMS Configuration
  • Introduction to CMS
    • Overview
    • CMS Deployment Options
    • What’s New in This Release
      • Global Policy Settings
      • CMS Alerts Logging
    • Central Management Server
    • Central Management Console
    • Managed Appliances
    • Licensing CMS
    • Central User Licenses
    • Global Traffic Optimizer
    • FIPS and CMS
    • Getting Started in Five Steps
  • Installing and Configuring the Central Management Server
    • Overview
    • Kernel based Virtual Machine
    • Supported Platforms for CMS with Global HA
    • Hardware Resource Requirements
    • Installation Files
    • Setting Up a CMS
  • Configuring Appliances for Central Management
    • Overview
    • Firmware Compatibility with the CMS
    • Enabling Central Management on SMA Appliance
    • Registering an SMA Appliance with the CMS
    • Previously Configured Appliances
  • Using the Management Console Menus
    • Overview
    • Dashboard
      • Alerts
      • Appliances Pane
      • Appliance Load
      • Central License Usage Pane
      • About Pane
    • Management Server
      • Alerts
        • View Alerts
        • Configure Alerts
        • Notification
      • Configure
        • Central Management Settings
        • CMS Address Pool
        • Licensing
        • Administrators
          • General Settings
        • Network Settings
        • SSL Settings
        • Services
          • Manage SSH settings from CMS
      • Monitor
        • Configure the logging setting for Managed appliances
      • Maintain
    • Managed Appliances
      • Add/Remove
      • Configure
        • Overview
        • Configuring the Managed Appliances
          • Define Policy
          • Synchronize
        • Support multiple policies with CMS and shared licensing
          • Applying authentication servers to specific appliance
          • Applying SMTP configuration service to specific appliance
          • Applying SMS service to specific appliance
          • Applying realms to a subset of appliance
          • Assign rules to a subset of appliances
          • Support multiple GTO services
      • Monitor
        • User Sessions
        • Reports
        • Health
      • Maintain
  • Central User Licensing
    • Overview
    • How Central User Licenses Work
      • Central Spike User Licenses
      • Central Email Licenses
      • Perpetual Pooled Licenses
    • Enabling Central User Licensing
    • Getting Started with Central User Licensing
      • Setting Up CMS to Use Central User Licenses
      • Setting up CMS for Centralized Appliance Configuration and Management
      • Resetting a CMS License
  • Global High Availability
    • High Availability of the VPN Service
    • High Availability of the CMS
    • Disaster Recovery for the VPN Service
  • Alerts and SNMP
    • Overview
    • Pre-Configured Alerts
    • Configuring SNMP
  • Capture Advanced Threat Protection
    • Enabling Capture ATP
    • File Options
    • Web Services
    • Advanced Settings
  • Central FIPS Licensing
• Global High Availablity
  • Introduction to Global HA and GTO
  • Planning GTO Deployment
    • Choosing a Deployment Model
    • Minimizing Configuration Differences
    • GTO Service Names and DNS Delegations
    • Provisioning Certificates
      • Let's Encrypt
      • Adding Certificates to SMA Appliances
      • Generating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
      • Importing SSL Certificates
  • Setting up GTO
    • Setting up the CMS and SMA appliances
    • Enabling GTO service for managed appliances with the CMS
    • Setting up a Basic GTO Service
    • Monitoring and Configuring GTO
    • Defining the Central Policy
  • Extending GTO Deployment
    • Enabling Cached Credentials
    • Additional Deployment Notes
• SonicWall Support
  • About This Document

Central Management Console

The Central Management Console (CMC) provides the user with a single screen (called the Dashboard) to show Active alerts, Appliance status, License status, and Geographic View of all appliances on a map of the world. The Dashboard also allows you, from a single point to:

• Configure appliances (using push configuration settings).
• Maintain appliances: Upgrade/hotfix, EPC update, add SSL certificates, and Restart.
• Use a one-click (single sign-on) to the AMC of managed appliance.
• View health history and reports for all appliances.
• Configure alerts, manage alert notifications for appliances or CMS.
• Install a central user license. Central licenses are available to all appliances as user demand changes between appliances.

Central Management Over the Internet

With Central Management Over the Internet, you can manage SMA appliances hosted in a data center using a CMS that is hosted outside the data center. You can also manage SMA appliances located in a different data center (without a dedicated link between the data centers) over the Internet.

Central Certificate Management

From the CMS, administrators can also manage certificates for all of the appliances managed by the CMS by:

• Creating and managing a Let's Encrypt free certificate.
• Creating Certificate Signing Requests, facilitating the process of obtaining certificates from a Certificate Authority.
• Importing certificates issued by a Certificate Authority to a centralized store on the CMS.
• Deploying selected certificates to specific appliances and then configuring those appliances to use the selected certificates, either immediately or at a scheduled time.
• Reviewing the list of certificates that have been imported to the CMS.
• Being alerted when certificates are due to expire.