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CENTRAL MANAGEMENT
SERVER (CMS) FOR SMA
Powerful virtual machine for appliance
management, resilience and reporting

SonicWall Central Management Server
(CMS) provides organizations, distributed
enterprises and service providers with
a powerful and intuitive solution to
centrally manage and rapidly deploy
SonicWall Secure Mobile Access
(SMA) solutions. For mid-size or large
enterprises, CMS streamlines security
policy management and appliance
deployment, minimizing administration
overhead. For Service Providers, CMS
simplifies the security management of
multiple clients and creates additional
revenue opportunities. Administrators
can cluster CMS solutions for added
redundancy and scalability.

Management
Console

Central Management Server (CMS) for SMA

Benefits:

SonicWall CMS is a virtual machine that
gives organizations a single administrative
user interface to manage multiple SMA
appliances. The administrator can use the
Central Management Console (CMC) of
the CMS to manage all SMA appliances,
regardless of location. CMS and managed
appliances are closely integrated through
native communications secured with TLS.
CMS requires no dedicated appliance or
hardware. It manages appliances that run
SMA OS 11.4 or higher.

• Deliver services with near-zero
downtime. Reduce TCO by accurately
sizing usage capacity and allocate
user licenses automatically across
appliances based on demand.

Central Management Server (CMS)
Configure the managed appliances
Manage and dynamically allocate pooled user licenses
Monitor appliances
View consolodated reports

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• Reduce maintenance overhead
by automating routine tasks and
scheduling activities.

• Control and predict costs with ease,
using simple subscription licensing
model.

Managed Appliances

SMA 6200

• Customize the visual dashboards to
monitor real-time and historical events.

• Get actionable insights you need to
make the right decisions.

Corporate Network

SMA 7200

• Provide zero-impact failover to users
across data centers in a global mesh
network.
• Simplify and manage policy rollouts across appliances or selected
appliances.

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SRA EX 9000

• Decrease capital costs with activeactive high availability clusters that
work in combination of physical and
virtual appliances.

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Features:
Global load-balancing – SonicWall Global Traffic Optimizer
(GTO) offers intelligent global load-balancing with zero-impact
to users. Traffic is routed to the most optimized and highest
performing data center.
Dynamic high availability – Managed appliances that run
SMA OS 12.0 or higher provide active/active clustering for
redundancy, availability and reliability, whether deployed in a
single data center or across multiple geographically dispersed
data centers.
Zero impact failover – Universal session persistence provides
high-performance, low-latency failover in a global active-active
cluster. In the event that an SMA appliance goes offline, users
do not need to re-enter their credentials for login, thereby
providing a frictionless user experience and improving workforce
productivity.1
Scalable performance – Scale performance and eliminate single
point of failure by clustering appliances. Horizontal clustering
fully supports mixing physical and virtual SMA appliances.
Dynamic licensing – User licenses no longer have to be applied
to individual SMA appliances. Users can be distributed and
reallocated dynamically among the managed appliances, based
on user demand.

Custom alerts – Alerts can be configured to generate SNMP
traps that are monitored by any IT infrastructure Network
Management System (NMS).
Real-time monitoring – SonicWall CMS dashboard provides a
single pane of glass view for IT administrators to monitor the
health of all the SMA appliances and view useful information
such as network activity, license and capacity usage etc..
Administrators can customize the dashboard, visualize
the data and generate ad hoc reports with ease using the
intuitive interface.
SIEM integration – Real-time output to central SIEM data
collectors allows security teams to correlate event driven
activities, to understand the end-to-end workflow of a particular
user or application. This is critical during security incident
management and forensic analysis.
Automated maintenance – SonicWall CMS comes with a
built-in scheduler that enables IT Administrators to automate
maintenance tasks such as deploying policies, replicating
configuration settings, rolling out firmware patches or upgrades
and restarting services, without manual intervention.
24x7 support – No additional support license is required. Roundthe-clock coverage is included with central pooled user licenses.

Central management – CMS includes the central management
console (CMC), which provides centralized, web-based
management for all SMA capabilities.
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Supported in SMA OS 12.1 or above

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Central User Licenses
User licenses no longer have to be applied to individual SMA
appliances. Central Management Server (CMS) can manage a pool
of user licenses and dynamically allocate them among managed
appliances. The CMS distributes the pool of licenses between the
managed appliances based on demand in real-time. In the event
that a managed appliance is unable to communicate with CMS,
the 'orphaned' appliance can run for 7 days on its leased license
and use 100% of CMS user licenses.
Customers with appliances that are globally distributed can
benefit from the fluctuating demands for user licenses due to
time differences. The CMS reallocates licenses to managed
appliances where user demands have peaked from appliances
in a different geographic area, where usage has fallen due

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Supported in SMA OS 12.1 or above. With SMA OS 12.1, a global data
store manages and regulates user license consumption across appliances
thereby removing dependency on CMS.

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to off‐work/night hours. Customers with appliances that are
behind load balancers can benefit from the dynamic distribution
of licenses across managed appliances, as the load balancer
distributes connection requests across the managed appliances.
SonicWall provides organizations the flexibility to choose the
licensing option that best suits their needs. Central user licenses
are available as a time-limited subscription option that includes
24X7 support, or as a perpetual option that requires an active
termed support contract. For organizations that want a licensing
option for specific usage, SonicWall offers tiered options with
ActiveSync licenses.2
In addition, organizations may scale capacity temporarily
during times of business disruptions or emergencies using
Spike licenses.3

Global High Availability
The SonicWall CMS provides a turnkey solution to deliver a
high degree of business continuity and scalability. Global High
Availability (GHA) empowers the service owner through a series
of tools to deliver a service with zero downtime and allows
service organizations to fulfill very aggressive SLAs.
GHA supports active-active clustering with either a physical or a
combination of physical and virtual appliances, whether in a single
data center or in a geographically dispersed data center. This
significantly reduces upfront capital costs for the customer where
appliances are in active use all the time rather than depreciating
in a data center waiting for a disaster scenario.

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Supported in SMA OS 12.1 or above.

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GHA enables SMA appliances to scale performance by deploying
multiple appliances, thus eliminating a single point of failure. This
provides resilience whether IT deploys 2 SMA appliances in the
same data center or clusters of up to 100 physical and virtual
appliances across multiple data centers around the globe.
Further, a global data store shares user session state across the
mesh network of SMA appliances in an active-active cluster.4
This allows for session persistence across data centers around
the world. In the event of a failover, users do not need to re-enter
credentials, so their experience is frictionless and productivity is
not impacted.

Real Time Dashboard
The CMS dashboard displays a quick overview of the appliances
being managed. The Geographic View shows a visual location
of the appliance based on its city and country obtained during
configuration. The alerts pane on the dashboard shows a
consolidated view of all currently active alerts. The Alerts
are intuitive and color coded to provide a quick status: Red
(ERROR), Yellow (WARNING) and Green (OKAY). The dashboard
provides real‐time data for online managed appliances, and
includes Name, Status, Users, CPU usage, Memory usage,
Mbps & Uptime.

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CMS enables administrators to create system-wide reports and
charts, with ability to export to CSV or MS Excel. Administrators
can generate ad hoc reports for audit and compliance based
on categories (such as Users, Access, Devices or Network). It
enables greater insight into usage trends and remote access
events. The near real-time reporting also provides granular drill
down to insights, such as the bandwidth consumption, data
transferred to users, access zones in use by users, destinations
accessed by users and number of user sessions on appliances
or realms.

CMS System Requirements
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Supported OS

SMA OS 11.4 or newer

Supported SMA Appliances

SMA 6200,7200, 8200v, EX9000

Supported VMware platform

ESXi 4.0 Update 1 (Build 208167) and newer, ESXi 5 and newer

Supported Hyper-V platform

Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016

Recommended Hardware RAM

8GB RAM

Recommended Hardware CPU

4 CPU

Recommended Hardware Disk Space

64 GB

CMS Licensing Options
SonicWall provides the following license options for licensing the CMS
License type

Description

CMS Application
(Free Trial)

Customers can download a free trial of the CMS license from the MySonicWall portal, which
enables the CMS to manage 3 appliances and 15 users for 1 month. The free trial provides the
customer with a serial number and authentication code to enter in CMS console. CMS does
not require the appliances to use pooled licenses. CMS also support central management of
appliances that consume traditional perpetual licenses.

CMS Appliance (Base)

Customers can upgrade from the free trial to a Base CMS license at no cost. The Base CMS license
allows the CMS to monitor and manage up to 3 appliances. The Base CMS license does not have
user licenses and does not expire.

CMS Appliance (Full)

Customers who want to manage more than 3 appliances need to purchase the stackable annual
license. With this license customer can manage up to 100 appliances. This license expires and
needs to be renewed at the end of its term.

CMS Ordering Information
CMS APPLIANCE LICENSE
01-SSC-8535

SMA CMS BASE + 3 APPLIANCES LICENSE (FREE)

01-SSC-8536

SMA CMS 100 APPLIANCES LICENSE 1YR

CENTRAL USER LICENSES (SUBSCRIPTION)
01-SSC-2298

SMA CMS POOLED LICENSE 10 USER 1YR

01-SSC-2299

SMA CMS POOLED LICENSE 10 USER 3YR

01-SSC-8539

SMA CMS POOLED LICENSE 1000 USER 1YR

01-SSC-8542

SMA CMS POOLED LICENSE 1000 USER 3YR

01-SSC-5339

SMA CMS POOLED LICENSE 50000 USER 1YR

01-SSC-5349

SMA CMS POOLED LICENSE 50000 USER 3YR

CENTRAL USER LICENSES (PERPETUAL)
01-SSC-2053

SMA CMS PERPETUAL LICENSE 10USER

01-SSC-2058

SMA CMS PERPETUAL LICENSE 1000USER

01-SSC-2063

SMA CMS PERPETUAL LICENSE 50000USER

24X7 SUPPORT FOR CENTRAL USER LICENSES (PERPETUAL)
01-SSC-2065

SMA CMS 24X7 SUPPORT 1YR 10USER

01-SSC-2076

SMA CMS 24X7 SUPPORT 3YR 10USER

01-SSC-2070

SMA CMS 24X7 SUPPORT 1YR 1000USER

01-SSC-2081

SMA CMS 24X7 SUPPORT 3YR 1000USER

01-SSC-2075

SMA CMS 24X7 SUPPORT 1YR 50000USER

01-SSC-2086

SMA CMS 24X7 SUPPORT 3YR 50000USER

CENTRAL ACTIVESYNC LICENSES (SUBSCRIPTION)
01-SSC-2088

SMA CMS POOLED EMAIL LICENSE 10USER 1YR

01-SSC-2098

SMA CMS POOLED EMAIL LICENSE 10USER 3YR

01-SSC-2093

SMA CMS POOLED EMAIL LICENSE 1000USER 1YR

01-SSC-2103

SMA CMS POOLED EMAIL LICENSE 1000USER 3YR

01-SSC-2087

SMA CMS POOLED EMAIL LICENSE 50000USER 1YR

01-SSC-2108

SMA CMS POOLED EMAIL LICENSE 50000USER 3YR

CENTRAL SPIKE LICENSES
01-SSC-2109

SMA CMS SPIKE 100USER 5DAYS

01-SSC-2111

SMA CMS SPIKE 1000USER 5DAYS

01-SSC-2115

SMA CMS SPIKE 50000USER 5DAYS

CAPTURE ADD-ON (SUBSCRIPTION)
01-SSC-2116

SMA CMS CAPTURE TRIAL 1YR

For more information on CMS visit our website.
To buy CMS, contact SonicWall sales here.

About Us
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worldwide. Our combination of products and partners has enabled a real-time cyber defense solution tuned to the specific needs of
the more than 500,000 global businesses in over 150 countries, so you can do more business with less fear.

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