Page 24 Overview of SonicWALL UMA EM5000 Roles
Overview of SonicWALL UMA EM5000 Roles
The role that you assign to your SonicWALL UMAEM5000
defines the SonicWALL Universal Management Suite services
that it will provide. SonicWALL GMS uses these services to
perform management, monitoring, and reporting tasks.
Your SonicWALLUMA EM5000 can be deployed in any of the
following roles:
• All In One
• Agent
• Console
• Database Only
•Monitor
• Syslog Collector
In the appliance management interface, clicking Details in the
same row as a role provides a list of the services that run on a
system in that role, and information about using the role.
As the number of managed appliances increases, a more
distributed deployment provides better performance. To
manage large numbers of SonicWALL appliances, you can use
several SonicWALL UMAEM5000 appliances operating in
different roles in a distributed deployment. You can also use
Windows Server machines running SonicWALL GMS in any of
the roles.
You can include the MySQL database installation with any role.
The All In One or Database Only roles automatically include the
MySQL database.
You can scale your deployment to handle more units and more
reporting by adding more systems in the Agent role. Agents
provide built-in redundancy capability, meaning that if an Agent
goes down, other Agents can perform the configuration tasks
and other tasks of the Agent that went down.
Note: When configuring the role for the first appliance in a
distributed deployment, you should either include the
database or be prepared to provide the IP address of
an existing database server.
You can meet this database objective in one of the following
ways:
• By selecting a role that includes the database
automatically, such as All In One or Database Only
• By selecting the Include Database (MYSQL) checkbox if
configuring the appliance with any other role
• By setting up a compatible database on another machine
and providing that IP address when prompted