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SonicOS Enhanced 4.0 Administrator Guide

How Does the Security Dashboard Work?

The SonicWALL Security Dashboard provides global and appliance-level threat protection
statistics. At the appliance level, threat protection data from your SonicWALL security
appliance is displayed. At the global level, the SonicWALL Security Dashboard is updated
hourly from the SonicWALL backend server with aggregated threat protection data from
globally-deployed SonicWALL security appliances. Data provided by the SonicWALL backend
server is cached locally for reliable delivery.
Note The SonicWALL security appliance must have Internet connectivity (including connection to
a DNS server) to receive the latest threat protection statistics from the SonicWALL backend
server, which reports aggregated data from globally deployed SonicWALL security
appliances. If you lose connectivity, cached data from the last update will display, and the
latest data will not be available until connectivity is restored.

Platforms

The Security Dashboard is available on the SonicWALL security appliances running SonicOS
3.5 firmware and higher.
Using the SonicWALL Security Dashboard
This section contains the following subsections:
• “Administrator Prerequisites” on page 50
• “Administrator Configuration Tasks” on page 50

Administrator Prerequisites

SonicWALL security appliances running SonicOS 3.5 firmware or later must be set up and
registered on mysonicwall.com. For registration instructions, refer to the SonicWALL Getting
Started Guide for your security appliance, available on the Web at:

http://www.sonicwall.com/us/Support.html.

Note The SonicWALL security appliance must be configured for Internet connectivity and be
connected to the Internet to display the latest reports.

Administrator Configuration Tasks

This section contains the following subsections:
• “SonicWALL Security Dashboard Configuration Overview” on page 51
• “Purchasing Security Services” on page 52