About SonicOS 7.2
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What is SonicOS?
SonicOS7.2 runs on SonicWall network security appliances (firewalls) and provides a 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 runs on top of SonicCore, SonicWall's secure underlying operating system.
SonicOS has two modes, differing mainly in the areas of policy and object configuration:
- SonicOS Classic Mode is supported on SonicWall TZ series, NSa series, NSsp series (except for NSsp 15700), and NSv series firewalls. Refer to the SonicOS 7.2 Release Notes for the specific supported platforms.
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SonicOS Policy Mode is supported on SonicWall NSv series and NSsp 15700 firewalls.
SonicOS Policy Mode 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 7.2 is more consistent with earlier releases, but is also redesigned with the new look and feel.
SonicOS 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 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 management interface, see About the SonicOS Management Interface.