Sophos Management Appliance
Joined Web Appliance
Standalone
Web
Appliance
administrative
web interface
page(s)
Yes; additional Select View option to see only information
for a specific appliance; for All appliances option,
numbers are totals or averages
Yes, but no report links
Yes
Dashboard
Yes
no post-installation tasks;
the only quick task is
Configure Central
Management
Yes
Configuration
Landing Page
Yes
Yes, but accounts are for
the local system only
Yes
Accounts >
Administrators
Yes
None
Yes
Accounts >
Notification
Pages
Yes
Policy Test only
Yes
Group Policy
Yes; the General Options page has no "Cache settings"
Only General Options
page, which has only
"Cache settings"
Yes
Global Policy
Yes
Status info & Update button
only
Yes
System >
Updates
Yes; added Report data backup option
None
Yes
System >
Backup
Yes
None
Yes
System >
Restore
Yes
Syslog only
Yes
System >
Alerts &
Monitoring
Yes
Yes; no LDAP access
options (LDAP data is
downloaded from the
Management Appliance)
Yes
System >
Active
Directory
Yes
Yes
Yes
System > Time
Zone
44 | Getting Started | Sophos Web Appliance