SonicWALL ViewPoint 2.0

Businesses today rely increasingly on the Internet to communicate with customers, partners and telecommuters, while performing everyday tasks that keep business and information flowing. To monitor these critical resources, IT administrators need a comprehensive view of network events and activities such as network usage, attacks and threats, and employee Internet use, to enhance security and manage bandwidth needs.

A Web-based graphical reporting tool, SonicWALL ViewPoint 2.0 provides unprecedented security awareness and control over your network environment through detailed and comprehensive reports of your network and firewall activities. ViewPoint's broad reporting capabilities allow your administrators to easily monitor network access and Internet usage, enhance security, assess risks, understand more about employee Internet use and productivity, and anticipate future bandwidth needs.

ViewPoint creates dynamic, real-time and historical network summaries, providing a flexible, 360º view of network events and activities. Reports are based on "syslog" data streams received from each SonicWALL appliance through the wired LAN, wireless LAN, WAN or VPN tunnel. With ViewPoint, your organization can generate individual or aggregate reports about virtually any aspect of appliance activity, including individual user or group usage patterns, events on specific appliances or groups of appliances, types and times of attacks, resource consumption and constraints, and more. An integral part of any deployment, SonicWALL ViewPoint delivers the comprehensive view of network and firewall activities your organization needs to enhance security and manage critical resources today and tomorrow.

Key Features & Benefits

Ease-of-Use. ViewPoint features an easy-to-follow Installation Wizard to quickly install the product. ViewPoint also includes an integrated Web server, syslog server, and database for fast, one-step installation.

Web-based User Interface. All reporting functions are performed from ViewPoint's intuitive Web User Interface, simplifying deployment and access from a local or remote system using a Web browser application.

Comprehensive Set of Graphical Reports. ViewPoint offers a comprehensive set of graphical reports including firewall attacks, bandwidth usage, Web site visits, user activity, and more.

On-Demand Reporting. ViewPoint provides immediate reporting functionality for users requiring quick results, saving time and administration overhead.

Real-time and Historical Reports. ViewPoint provides dynamic, real-time reports and comprehensive historical reports, allowing organizations to be aware of suspicious activity and to ensure high employee productivity. ViewPoint also provides summaries of all types of network attacks as well as informative reports of user behavior, identifying time-wasting or bandwidth-intensive activities.

Aggregate Reports. ViewPoint creates aggregate reports for all firewalls in the network, allowing organizations to better understand their Internet bandwidth usage and plan for future capacity needs.

Multiple Firewall Support. ViewPoint offers support for multiple firewalls, allowing organizations to view reports of all firewall activities from a single application.