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SONICWALL SONICOS STANDARD 3.0 ADMINISTRATOR’S GUIDE
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SonicSetup
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PPENDIX
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Appendix BAUsing the SonicSetup Diagnostic
and Recovery Tool
SonicSetup
SonicSetup provides improved diagnostic and initial setup capabilities for SonicWALL security
appliances. It demonstrates that a SonicWALl security appliance is in a functional state at the
hardware, ROM, firmware, and user-interface levels, and that the SonicWALL security appliance can
be successfully reached, administered, and configured.
SonicSetup is a diagnostic and recovery tool, not a provisioning tool. It is intended to recover from
unknown or corrupt states due to ROM, firmware, or preference file corruption, and to automate the
synchronization of network addressing between the SonicWALL security appliance and the
management workstation.
SonicSetup has two components: A SonicWALL ROM component, and a Win32 executable.
The recommended configuration for SonicSetup is direct connection between the SonicWALL
appliance’s LAN port and the management workstation using a cross-over cable. SonicSetup uses
layer 2 broadcasts to discover a SonicSetup-capable SonicWALL security appliance, but as a security
measure, SonicSetup only makes changes to the configuration if the LAN port is the only active link
on the SonicWALL security appliance; this is intended to prevent the use of SonicSetup on a
production SonicWALL security appliance.