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title: SonicWall Network Security Manager
description: "## What is SonicWall Network Security Manager? SonicWall Network Security Manager (NSM) orchestrates firewall operations and manages threats and risks across your firewall ecosystem. ## Why Should You Use the SonicWall Network Security Manager Connector? The SonicWall Network Security Manager…"
url: "https://lucidum.io/docs/sonicwall-network-security-manager/"
updated: "2024-06-29"
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# SonicWall Network Security Manager

## What is SonicWall Network Security Manager?

SonicWall Network Security Manager (NSM) orchestrates firewall operations and manages threats and risks across your firewall ecosystem.

## Why Should You Use the SonicWall Network Security Manager Connector?

The SonicWall Network Security Manager connector provides visibility into the users and assets in your environment. You can use this visibility to:

- ensure assets are managed per your security policies
- ensure user are managed per your security policies
- derive relationships between assets, users, applications, and data

## How Does This Connector Work?

Lucidum executes read-only requests to the SonicWall Network Security Manager REST API and ingests only meta-data about SonicWall Network Security Manager devices. Lucidum does not retrieve any data stored on your assets.

## Configuring the Connector in Lucidum

| **Field** | **Description** | **Example** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Host | The hostname or IP address of the SonicWall Network Security Manager server. | 10.2.290.29 |
| Tenant ID | Unique ID for your instance of SonicWall Network Security Manager server. To find your tenant ID: - Log into NSM - Navigate to Firewall > Inventory - Clicki on the Tenant name under Manager View. - Click the Tenants tab to see your tenant ID details. | \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* |
| Username | User name for a SonicWall Network Security Manager account with read access. |  justynmutts |
| Password | The password for the SonicWall Network Security Manager account. | \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* |
| Proxy | If you are using a proxy server to allow this connector to communicate with on-premises devices, enter the IP address: port for the proxy server, usually **192.168.255.6:3128** | 192.168.255. |

## Source Documentation

### Creating Credentials

To create a new user for the Lucidum connector in an on-premises SonicWall solutions, see [https://www.sonicwall.com/support/technical-documentation/docs/nsm-onprem_gsg/Content/Setup-NSM/create-users.htm/](https://www.sonicwall.com/support/technical-documentation/docs/nsm-onprem_gsg/Content/Setup-NSM/create-users.htm/).

To create a new user for the Lucidum connector in a SaaS SonicWall solution, see [https://www.sonicwall.com/support/technical-documentation/docs/nsm-saas_getting_started/Content/SaaS/create-user.htm/](https://www.sonicwall.com/support/technical-documentation/docs/nsm-saas_getting_started/Content/SaaS/create-user.htm/).

In SonicWall, assign the user the Admin role, so Lucidum can ingest data about devices and users.

### Required Permissions

[https://www.sonicwall.com/support/knowledge-base/how-to-change-roles-permissions-for-users-in-nsm/210430160631000/](https://www.sonicwall.com/support/knowledge-base/how-to-change-roles-permissions-for-users-in-nsm/210430160631000/)

| **Object** | **Permissions** |
| --- | --- |
| Role | Admin |

### API Documentation

[https://nsm-uswest.sonicwall.com/api/docs/nsm](https://nsm-uswest.sonicwall.com/api/docs/nsm)

[https://www.sonicwall.com/techdocs/pdf/msw-api_guide.pdf](https://www.sonicwall.com/techdocs/pdf/msw-api_guide.pdf)

[https://api.mysonicwall.com/mssp.html](https://api.mysonicwall.com/mssp.html)