SMA 200 Appliance keeps rebooting every few minutes

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• Ajishlal Community Legend ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 2023

  @abhishekbisaria

  Did you upload any certificate into the SMA? If you upload the certificate, unbind the certificate and try.

  NB: Before uploading the certificate make sure your SMA have the latest firmware.

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• abhishekbisaria Newbie ✭

  March 2023

  https://community.sonicwall.com/technology-and-support/discussion/4979/sma-200-appliance-keeps-rebooting-every-few-minutes

  No, I did not upload any certificates. It only has the default one.

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• BWC Cybersecurity Overlord ✭✭✭

  March 2023

  @abhishekbisaria the SMA is quite old, what firmware is running on it? I had trouble with 10.2.1.6 and publishing Exchange Active Sync, no problems with 10.2.1.7 on that front.

  Is the SMA still crashing when you deny any access to it from the WAN (on your Firewall by blocking 80/443)?

  --Michael@BWC

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• abhishekbisaria Newbie ✭

  March 2023

  Hi Michael,

  The firmware version is: 10.2.1.7-49sv

  Do you want me to try denying outgoing access from SMA to WAN?

  Thanks

  --Abhishek

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• BWC Cybersecurity Overlord ✭✭✭

  March 2023

  Abhishek, no, because your httpd is crashing I really meant to deny any traffic from WAN to the SMA, just for a little while to see if the process is still crashing. Outbound shouldn't be a problem here.

  Does the SMA 200 has a serial console port which you could check as well? Hardware related issues might be shown here.

  --Michael@BWC

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• abhishekbisaria Newbie ✭

  March 2023

  Hi Michael,

  All services were denied already from WAN to SMA except for TCP 8443 that is needed to connect to access the portal.

  I stopped that also and waited for about half hour. It didn't seem to make any difference, the up time was only 5 minutes when I logged in right after enabling the access.

  There is no console port on this appliance.

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• BWC Cybersecurity Overlord ✭✭✭

  March 2023

  @abhishekbisaria I'am confused, according to the Getting Started Guide there is a serial console port on the SMA 200, not sure if anything will be reported there, but it's worth a try because it might show messages which could not be logged to file.

  https://www.sonicwall.com/techdocs/pdf/secure-mobile-access-200-400-getting-started-guide.pdf

  If noone accesses the appliance and the appliance is still rebooting it might be hardware related. But when the httpd is crashing it looks like that there are still incoming connections.

  Do you have any special characters in your configuration, like for usernames, portal names, etc?

  On the other hand, the SMA 200 is still supported (until 2024), what does SNWL Support says about it?

  --Michael@BWC

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• abhishekbisaria Newbie ✭

  March 2023

  Hi Michael,

  I am sorry but my expertise with this stuff is minimal. Yes, the appliance does have the console port. Though I could not find the cable and the compatible computer to connect it to.

  SonicWall support suggested to factory reset it and check if the problem exists. If so then they would conclude that it is a hardware problem.

  I was trying to avoid doing that but I don't see any other option so I am going for that now.

  Thanks a lot for your time.

  
  

  --Abhishek

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• abhishekbisaria Newbie ✭

  March 2023

  Hi Michael,

  Just to update you. Factory resetting the appliance fixed the issue.

  Very strange, if there was a setting that was the root cause of the issue (As per the Sonicwall support) then I would expect it to not even accept that setting.

  
  

  --Abhishek

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• BWC Cybersecurity Overlord ✭✭✭

  March 2023

  @abhishekbisaria great that you got this sorted out. If you saved a TSR before the factory reset you may compare it with a current one, if you believe you configured the system exactly like before.

  --Michael@BWC

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