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Selecting the Role for a SonicWALL GMS Server
The role that you assign to your SonicWALL GMS defines the SonicWALL Universal
Management Suite services that it will provide. SonicWALL GMS uses these services to
perform management, monitoring, and reporting tasks.
Your SonicWALL GMS can be deployed in any of the following roles:
• All in One
• Database Only
•Console
• Agent
•Monitor
• Syslog Collector
In the UMH system 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 GMS instances operating in different roles in a distributed
deployment. These instances can run on Windows Server machines or on SonicWALL
UMA appliances.
You can include the MySQL database installation with any role. The All In One or
Database Only roles automatically include the MySQL database. Only one server in a
SonicWALL GMS deployment should have the MySQL database included in its role.
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 system
with any other role
• By setting up a compatible database on another machine and providing that IP
address when prompted
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