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SonicWALL GMS 7.0 Getting Started Guide Page 25
To deploy your SonicWALL GMS server in the Console role, perform the following steps:
1. Log into your UMH system interface and navigate to the Deployment > Role page.
2. Under Host Role Configuration, select the Console radio button.
3. If this SonicWALL GMS server will connect to managed appliances through a GMS
gateway, type the gateway IP address into the GMS Gateway IP field. To determine
if a GMS gateway is required, see the SonicWALL GMS Gateway Recommendations
section, on page 6.
4. If a GMS gateway will be used, type the password into both the GMS Gateway
Password and Confirm GMS Gateway Password fields.
5. If this SonicWALL GMS server listens for syslog messages on a non-standard port,
type the port number into the Syslog Server Port field. The default port is 514.
6. To use a MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server database on another system, do not select
the Include Database (MYSQL) checkbox. To include the MySQL database on this
system (not recommended), select this checkbox (for this configuration, select the All
In One role instead of the Console role).
7. Configure the database settings as described in the Configuring Database Settings
section, on page 28.
8. Configure the Web port settings as described in the Configuring Web Port Settings
section, on page 30.
9. To apply your changes, click Update.
To change the settings on this page back to the defaults, click Reset.
Configuring the Agent Role
The Agent role can be used in a distributed deployment of SonicWALL GMS. The
primary functions of this role include the following:
• Manages units by acquiring them, pushing configuration tasks to the units and
tracking their up/down status
• Performs monitoring based on ICMP probes, TCP probes, and SNMP OID retrievals
• Collects and stores syslog messages
• Performs report generation
The following SonicWALL Universal Management Suite services run on an Agent
system:
• Monitoring Manager
• Reports Database
• Reports Summarizer
• Scheduler