• About SonicOS
  • What is SonicOS?
  • Where Do I Find Information About SonicOS?
  • SonicOS Web Interface to Administration Guide Reference
  • Guide Conventions
• Firewall Management Methods
• About the SonicOS Management Interface
  • Logging Into SonicOS
  • Logging Out of SonicOS
  • Contemporary vs Classic Web Interface
  • Global Search
  • Online Help
  • Notification Center
  • SonicOS Guides (Wizards)
    • Public Server Guide
    • VPN Guide
    • Wireless Guide
    • SDWAN Guide
  • SSH Terminal Access
  • About the Top Menu Views
  • About the API and CLI
  • Legal Information
• What's New in SonicOS 7.1
• Features of SonicOS
  • Features Available in Policy Mode
    • About Unified Policies in SonicOS
    • About the Shadow Feature
    • About Action Profiles
  • Features Available on TZ Series, NSa Series, and NSsp Series
    • Switch Management
    • PortShield Groups
    • Access Points Management
    • WWAN and 4G/LTE
    • Storage Device Configuration
  • Features Available on NSv Series
    • Feature Support on NSv Series
    • Changing Between Classic Mode and Policy Mode
      • Choosing the Mode in Fresh Deployments or Upgrades
      • Changing From Classic to Policy Mode
      • Changing From Policy to Classic Mode
  • Features Available on NSsp 15700
    • About Multi-Instance
• SonicWall Support
  • About This Document

About the Top Menu Views

The contemporary SonicOS 7.1 web management interface layout is organized into high-level, intuitive workflows, with six top-level views in a menu across the top.

The currently selected top view is marked with an orange dot. A similar orange dot marks the currently selected page in the left navigation pane.

The six top-level views are:

• HOME – The HOME view provides dashboards and graphs designed to help you quickly see the health and security status of your security appliance, connected devices, and networks. In SonicOS, the Policy Overview page provides status information for your policies. On NSsp 13700 and TZ, NSa and NSv series, a graphical representation of your network topology is available in the HOME view. The API and Legal pages are also in the HOME view.
• MONITOR – The MONITOR view provides Real-Time Charts, AppFlow reports and/or monitoring, AppFlow sessions (on NSv), Capture Threat Assessment report, SDWAN monitoring, system logs, and tools for packet capture and monitoring connections and processes.
• DEVICE – The DEVICE view provides configuration pages for firewall administration and settings, internal wireless settings for TZ wireless firewalls, high availability, users, AppFlow settings, log settings, and system diagnostic tools. In SonicOS, the Policy Lookup page is available under Diagnostics. On TZ, NSa and NSsp 13700 firewalls, configuration pages for external devices such as the SonicWall Switch, Access Points, and WWAN 4G/LTE are available.
• NETWORK – The NETWORK view provides System configuration pages for network interfaces and system settings including for load balancing, ARP, web proxy, PortShield (on TZ and NSa series), VLAN translation, dynamic routing, DHCP server, etc, as well as pages for advanced firewall settings, VoIP, DNS, SDWAN, IPSec VPN, and SSL VPN settings.
• OBJECT – In SonicOS, the OBJECT view provides configuration pages for Match Objects, Profile Objects, and Action Objects, which are used when creating rules and policies on the POLICY view. In SonicOS, the OBJECT view provides configuration pages for Match Objects, Profile Objects, and Action Profiles, which are used when creating rules and policies on the POLICY view. A Signatures page allows refresh of Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware signature databases on the firewall.

• POLICY – In SonicOS, the POLICY view provides menu groups for Rules and Policies, Capture ATP, and EndPoint Security. In SonicOS, the POLICY view provides those menu groups plus four additional ones: DPI-SSL, DPI-SSH, Security Services and Anti-Spam.

  The configuration pages within Rules and Policies have significant differences between SonicOS (Classic mode) and SonicOS (Policy mode). The configuration pages in Classic mode include Access Rules, NAT Rules, Routing Rules, Content Filter Rules, App Rules and Endpoint Rules. In Policy mode, the Rules and Policies menu group pages are Settings, Security Policy, NAT Policy, Route Policy, Decryption Policy, DoS Policy, Endpoint Policy and Shadow. These policy configuration pages cover the same security aspects as those in Classic mode, but with a more unified approach. The Settings page provides status for all security services on a single page, while the services are configured within each policy as an integral component. The Shadow page shows which rules are being shadowed by other rules and which rules are shadowing other rules. If a rule is shadowed by another rule, the first rule might never be hit.