SonicWave 421 & variants
RobertCrooks
Newbie ✭
Asking this question in the community as my actual support ticket seems to have been forgotten about :(
I just upgraded to an NSa2700 because I realized three new SonicWave 421 APs i bought last year can't be managed by the 2650 NSa.
I've been struggling with adding them to my 2700 infrastructure.
have them in the WWAN zone on a management vlan (70) powered by Sonicwall PoE injectors and they show up in the interface, but always in this "need to register" format and Initializing. After a few minutes it turns to Rebooting.
I've tried the factory reset, butthe result is always the same.
however when i click the Register button:
I tried registering them as products, then managing in WMN but they go online, then offline. Be that as it may, i have SonicPoint N2 also so I want to manage them on-prem as a group.
What are the conditions needed to manage them on-prem? Docs seem very confusing on this point.
Answers
Hi @RobertCrooks, I'm sorry to hear about this issue that you are experiencing. Please, can you provide your support case number for us to follow up with internally?
44415068
Unfortunately, the new SonicWave 600 series can only be managed via the cloud - by WCM. In my opinion, this is a very bad solution - there should be a choice. I didn't know that this applies to the 400 series - is this a mistake on your part? You wrote SonicWave 421 and the picture shows SonicWave 621. But the photo says it's not registered.
Below is a link to a discussion on a similar topic - maybe this will help.
I have SonicPoint's ACe and N2 and everything works normally, i.e. as before.
Can SonicWave 432 be managed directly from a firewall? I'm planning to buy one - SonicWave 432e.
Sonicwall 432's can be managed from a Sonicwall Firewall. Originally that is how we managed ours. That being said, we had a lot of random reboots with our 432's so we moved to 621's and 641's. The new FW 7.1.1 firmware supports the 600 series being managed by the firewall.