Sonicwall TZ100 – HTTPS Management Configuration

William,

If you have enabled HTTPS on the interface and still have the default allow any firewall rule for the HTTPS management service then remote management should be configured.

If you have enabled the SSLVPN you will probably have changed the management port to something else... generally 8443 but you can check this in the System -> Administration menu. you should see the port setting in the HTTPS administration port setting.

If its not working then check that you are trying to connect to the correct IP address. you need to connect to the interface IP address.

Also check the logs of the firewall after trying to login. If its being denied it should tell you and hopefully give a useful reason why. if you still have problems please port the logs and I will have a look.

You have to allow DNS through. Without DNS resolution, the http(s) requests will not finish and trigger the redirect to the login page. What I did was add a rule that permitted DNS for All as the first rule, then everything else permitted for Trusted Users.