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Manage appliances

You can monitor and manage integration appliances with Sophos Appliance Manager.

When you create a new appliance, we set up the account you need to use Appliance Manager.

Note

If your appliance is hosted on AWS, you must edit AWS security groups to allow access to Appliance Manager. See Edit the security groups.

We show you the account details when you save your settings. The user name is zadmin and the password is shown in a pop-up message.

Store the password safely. It's only shown once.

Appliance Manager password pop-up.

Note

We also set up accounts for existing appliances. The user name is zadmin and you'll be able to set the password the first time you open Appliance Manager.

Open Appliance Manager

After you deploy your appliance on a VM, go back to Sophos Central and access it as follows:

  1. In Sophos Central, go to Threat Analysis Center > Integrations > Configured.
  2. Go to the Integration Appliances tab.

  3. Find your new appliance. In the rightmost column, click the ellipsis (three dots) and select Open Appliance Manager.

    Appliance actions menu.

  4. In the confirmation dialog, do as follows:

    1. If you're managing a pre-existing appliance, or you've forgotten the password, click reset it in the last line to set a password for Appliance Manager.
    2. Click Open.

    Confirmation dialog.

Appliance Manager opens in a new window.

Appliance Manager dashboard.

More information

For help with using Appliance Manager, see Sophos Appliance Manager for MDR and NDR.