Scenario 2: Your large or multi-site organization’s deployment starts
with multiple appliances
If your organization begins with multiple appliances that are deployed at the same time, the setup
is as follows:
1. Unconfigured Web Appliances, whether they are in the same location and or in remote
locations and , are joined (in any order) to the Management Appliance
(joins must be
performed from each new Web Appliance).
2. The configuration is done on the Management Appliance, which then distributes this
configuration data to the joined Web Appliances (shown with blue dotted lines).
Note: Follow the steps in Scenario 1 if you prefer to configure one of your new Web Appliances
for testing purposes first, join it to the Management Appliance, and then distribute the
configuration data to the other Web Appliances.
Joined Appliances (Scenarios 1 and 2)
In both scenarios, once all of the appliances are joined, ongoing configuration changes are done
on the Management Appliance
and distributed to the Web Appliances— , , , —thus
providing centralized configuration (blue dashed lines). Also, report data is sent from the Web
Appliances to the Management Appliance, providing centralized reporting (red smooth lines).
Appliance Mode and Model Differences
Sophos Web Appliances can operate in standalone or joined mode. You can also join a Sophos
Management Appliance to one or more Web Appliances for centralized management.
There are differences in the administrative user interface, depending on which mode the appliance
is in or if it is a Management Appliance. For a detailed breakdown of these variations, see “Mode
and Model Differences.”
Related concepts
on page 141
Understanding Mode and Model Differences
on page 43
Grouped Appliance Troubleshooting
on page 210
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