SonicWall Central Management Server (CMS) provides organizations, distributed enterprises and service providers with a powerful and intuitive solution to centrally manage and rapidly deploy SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) solutions. For mid-size or large enterprises, CMS streamlines security policy management and appliance deployment, minimizing administration overhead. For Service Providers, CMS simplifies the security management of multiple clients and creates additional revenue opportunities. Administrators can cluster CMS solutions for added redundancy and scalability.

Central Management Server (CMS) for SMA
SonicWall CMS gives organizations a single administrative user interface to manage multiple SMA appliances. CMS can be deployed in your private cloud as virtual appliance, or on a public cloud using bring your own license (BYOL) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) The administrator can use the Central Management Console (CMC) of the CMS to manage all SMA appliances, regardless of location. CMS and managed appliances are closely integrated through native communications secured with TLS. CMS requires no dedicated appliance or hardware. It manages appliances that run SMA OS 11.4 or higher.