Getting Help; Logging Out; Navigation Bar; Deployment Guidelines - SonicWALL SMA 400 Administration Manual

Getting Help

Help in the upper right corner of the Secure Mobile Access management interface opens a separate Web browser that displays the main Secure Mobile
Access Help.
SMA/SRA appliances also include online context-sensitive Help, available from the management interface by clicking the question mark
top-right corner of most pages. Clicking on the question mark button opens a new browser window that displays management page or feature-specific
Help.
NOTE: Accessing the SMA/SRA appliance online Help requires an active Internet connection.

Logging Out

Logout in the upper right corner of the management interface terminates the management session.
When you click Logout, you are logged out of the Secure Mobile Access management interface and the Web browser is closed.

Navigation Bar

The Secure Mobile Access navigation bar is located on the left side of the Secure Mobile Access management interface and is comprised of a hierarchy of
menu headings. Most menu headings expand to a submenu of related management functions, and the first submenu item page is automatically displayed.
For example, when you click the System heading, the System > Status page is displayed. The navigation menu headings are: System, Network, Portals,
Services, NetExtender, End Point Control, Secure Virtual Assist, Secure Virtual Meeting, Web Application Firewall, High Availability, Users, Log, and
Virtual Office.

Deployment Guidelines

This sections provides information about deployment guidelines for the SMA/SRA appliance. This section contains the following subsections:
• Support for Numbers of User Connections
• Resource Type Support
• Integration with other SonicWall Inc. Products
• Typical Deployment
• Two-armed Deployment
Support for Numbers of User Connections
The following table lists the maximum and recommended numbers of concurrent tunnels supported for each appliance.
Concurrent tunnels supported based on appliance
Maximum Concurrent
Appliance Model
Tunnels Supported
SMA 400 250
SMA 200 50
SRA 4600 500
SRA 1600 50
SMA 500v Virtual Appliance 50
Factors such as the complexity of applications in use and the sharing of large files can impact performance.
Resource Type Support
The following table describes the types of applications or resources you can access for each method of connecting to the SMA/SRA appliance.
Supported application and resource types
Access
Access Types
Mechanism
Standard Web • Files and file systems, including support for FTP and Windows Network File
browser Sharing
• Web-based applications
• Microsoft Outlook Web Access and other Web-enabled applications
• HTTP and HTTPS intranets
NetExtender • Any TCP/IP based application including:
• Email access through native clients residing on the user's laptop
(Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, and so on.)
• Commercial and home-grown applications
• Flexible network access as granted by the network administrator
Downloadable • An application installed on desktop machines or hosted on an application
ActiveX or server, remote control of remote desktop or server platforms
Recommended Number of
Concurrent Tunnels
125
50
100
25
50
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