SonicWALL E-Class UMA EM5000

Overview:

The complexity of deploying and maintaining multiple network devices increases exponentially with the number of devices, end-users and office locations. Without central management tools, this administrative burden can quickly overwhelm IT staff. Similarly, for managed service providers, the number of staff increases proportionally to the number of customer networks under management. Without central automation tools, this demand on resources can keep firms from reaching economies of scale.

The SonicWALL® E-Class Universal Management Appliance (UMA) EM5000 offers businesses a new approach to configuring, enforcing and managing a large number of SonicWALL firewall, anti-spam, secure remote access, and backup and recovery appliances, services and policies. The EM5000 delivers granular policy management, monitoring and reporting functionality, yet is intuitive to use and easy to set up, enhancing efficiency, availability and return on investment (ROI). The EM5000 simplifies and automates multi-level policy management, monitoring and compliance reporting with flexible, powerful and intuitive tools, thereby reducing overhead and freeing resources for new revenue opportunities. Architected to be extensible by the addition of software applications, the UMA EM5000 is ideal for deployments scaling from a few to thousands of SonicWALL firewall, anti-spam, secure remote access, and backup and recovery appliances or services, in small-to-medium-sized businesses, large enterprises and managed service providers.

• Unified policy management
• Comprehensive monitoring
• Custom reporting
• Reliable, secure and optimized architecture
• Intuitive management dashboard
• Rich integration options

Features & Benefits:

• Unified policy management across SonicWALL firewall, anti-spam, secure remote access, and backup and recovery appliances and services enforces granular controls from a single global platform, easing deployment and administration, and providing greater efficiency in meeting service level agreements (SLAs). Offline management capabilities include scheduled configurations and/or firmware updates on managed appliances, thus providing predictable service disruptions.
• Comprehensive monitoring provides centralized logging and proactive analyses of network traffic, Web usage and security threats across a vast deployment. Devices and applications enabled for automated real-time alerts accelerate response and remediation time to network events or outages.
• Custom reporting aids strategic analysis, assists in complying with regulations such as PCI, SOX and HIPAA, provides cohesive corporate branding, and enhances security subscription service offerings. The EM5000 provides graphical reports of firewall and network activities to provide insight into application usage trends and security events from a single user or device to the global activity of the managed SonicWALL appliances.
• Reliable, secure and optimized architecture is purpose-built for SonicWALL solutions to maximize security and performance. The hardened EM5000 appliance comes with a tuned operating system and database, and eliminates the operating expense of acquiring, configuring, and deploying on unproven general-purpose hardware. High availability across clustered failover sites assures reliable system uptime, and speeds disaster recovery operations.
• Intuitive management dashboard simplifies licensing, and eases the centralized definition, control and deployment of up to thousands of appliances and custom policies. The SonicWALL policy dashboard presents the largest and most comprehensive hierarchies of SonicWALL appliances in an easy-to-understand format, greatly simplifying navigation and decreasing time spent on remediation and system maintenance.
• Rich integration options include a Web services application programming interface (API), CLI support for the majority of functions, and SNMP trap support. Both services providers and enterprises can use any of these options to integrate GMS with their professional services automation, management and monitoring, and other enterprise applications.

Specifications:

*Performance may vary and depends on many factors including devices under management, policies set for each device and activity reported on.

Documentation:

SonicWALL E-Class Universal Management Appliance EM5000 Datasheet (.PDF)