• About SonicOS and SonicOSX 7
  • What is SonicOS/X 7?
  • Where Do I Find Information?
  • SonicOS Web Interface to Admin Guides Reference
  • SonicOSX Web Interface to Admin Guides Reference
  • Guide Conventions
• Firewall Management Methods
• About the SonicOS/X Management Interface
  • Logging into SonicOS/X
  • Logging Out of SonicOS/X
  • Contemporary vs Classic Web Interface
  • Global Search
  • Online Help
  • Notification Center
  • SonicOS/X Guides (Wizards)
  • SSH Terminal Access
  • About the Top Menu Views
  • About the API and CLI
  • Legal Information
• What's New in SonicOS/X 7.0.1
• Features in Both SonicOS and SonicOSX
• Features Specific to SonicOSX
  • About Unified Policies in SonicOSX
  • About the Shadow Feature
  • About Action Profiles
• Features Specific to TZ, NSa and NSsp 13700
  • Switch Management
  • PortShield Groups
  • Access Points Management
  • WWAN and 4G/LTE
  • Storage Device Configuration
• Features Specific to NSv
  • Feature Support on NSv Series
  • Changing Between SonicOS and SonicOSX
    • Choosing the Mode in Fresh Deployments or Upgrades
    • Changing From Classic to Policy Mode
    • Changing From Policy to Classic Mode
• Features Specific to NSsp 15700
  • About Multi-Instance
• SonicWall Support

What is SonicOS/X 7?

SonicOS and SonicOSX (SonicOS/X) 7 runs on SonicWall network security appliances (firewalls) and provides the web management interface for configuring the features, policies, and security services, updating the firmware, managing connected devices such as switches and access points, monitoring traffic/users/threats, investigating events, and much more. SonicOS/X runs on top of SonicCore, SonicWall's secure underlying operating system.

SonicOS and SonicOSX are two modes of the same operating system, differing mainly in the areas of policy and object configuration. SonicOSX provides a unified policy configuration workflow combining Layer 2 to Layer 7 policy enforcement for security policies and optimizing the workflow for other policy types. This unified policy workflow gathers many security settings into one place, which were previously configured on different pages of the management interface in SonicOS 6.5. SonicOS 7 is more consistent with earlier releases, but is also redesigned with the new look and feel.

SonicOSX 7 is supported on SonicWall NSv and NSsp series firewalls. SonicOS 7 is supported on SonicWall TZ series, NSa series, NSsp 13700 and NSv series firewalls. Refer to the SonicOS and SonicOSX 7.x Release Notes for the specific supported platforms.

SonicOS/X provides a modern graphical management interface that facilitates:

• Setting up and configuring your security appliance
• Monitoring the health and status of the security appliance, network, users, connections and the status of the incoming and outgoing traffic
• Configuring external devices, such as access points or switches

SonicOS/X also provides full-featured API and a command line interface (CLI) in addition to the graphical management interface. For more information, see About the API and CLI.

For information about the SonicOS/X management interface, see About the SonicOS/X Management Interface.