SonicWALL Content Security Manager 2200 User Manual

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Registering Your SonicWALL CSM Using the Management Interface

1. Log in to the SonicWALL CSM management interface if you are not logged in.
2. If the System > Status page is not displayed in the management interface, click

System in the left-navigation menu, and then click Status.

3. On the System > Status page, in the Security Services section, click the Register

link in the sentence Click here to Register your SonicWALL. The
mySonicWALL.com Login page is displayed.

4. Enter your mySonicWALL.com account username and password in the User Name

and Password fields, then click Submit.

5. At the top of the Product Survey page, Enter a “friendly name” for your SonicWALL

CSM appliance in the Friendly Name field. The friendly name allows you to easily
identify your SonicWALL content security appliance in your mySonicWALL.com
account.

6. Please complete the Product Survey. SonicWALL uses this information to further

tailor services to fit your needs.

7. Click Submit.
8. When the mySonicWALL.com server has finished processing your registration, you

will see a page informing you that your SonicWALL CSM appliance is registered.
Click Continue, and the System > Licenses page is displayed showing you all your
activated services.

Congratulations

Your SonicWALL CSM is now fully operational, filtering HTTP content for all users. At
this point, all network user traffic on the network segment is filtered using the pre-
configured *Default Policy, which automatically applies the following Web filter
categories to all users: Adult Content, Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco, and Racism/Hate/
violence/Weapons
. For more information on the *Default Policy, refer to “Understanding
the *Default Policy” on page 21
.

For information on modifying the *Default Policy to block more objectionable content
categories, refer to the SonicOS CF 2.5 Administrator’s Guide.

The SonicWALL CSM also provides application filtering, which can block application
traffic from the following:

IM (Instant Messaging) applications

P2P (Peer-to-Peer) applications

Multimedia applications

For more information on configuring application filters, refer to the SonicOS CF 2.5
Administrator’s Guide.

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