Skip to content

Page permalink

Always use the following permalink when referencing this page. It will remain unchanged in future help versions.

https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/22.0/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/index.html?contextId=central-services-overview

Sophos Fusion services overview

Note

Sophos Fusion was previously known as Sophos Central.

From Sophos Firewall, you can turn on centralized reporting, management, and configuration backup in Sophos Fusion (previously Sophos Central). To use this feature, register this firewall with Sophos Fusion.

After turning on the services, a Super admin must start them in Sophos Fusion.

Name Description
Sophos Central services

Turn it on to configure centralized reporting, management, and configuration backup of this Sophos Firewall in Sophos Fusion.

In Sophos Fusion, select Global settings. Under Administration, select Registered firewall appliances to see the list of registered appliances.
Use Sophos Central reporting

Select to turn on centralized reporting.

In Sophos Fusion, go to My Products > Firewall management > Firewalls. Go to the firewall, click the Approval Pending icon Approval Pending icon., then click accept-services.
Use Sophos Central management

Select to turn on centralized management.

In Sophos Fusion, go to My Products > Firewall management > Firewalls. Go to the firewall, click the Approval Pending icon Approval Pending icon., then click accept-services.
Send configuration backup to Sophos Central

If you've selected Use Sophos Central management, select this to save configuration backups in Sophos Fusion.

In Sophos Fusion, go to My Products > Firewall management > Backup. Specify a backup schedule or generate the backup.