XG Firewall Home Premium HW-Requirements and CAPWAP Compatibility

Hi Chris,

The APs will work with the XG, but not be managed by it. 

There is no home premium XG, the software for home users is the same that is loaded on to the enterprise boxes.

If you do a search of the Sophos site you should find something like thishttps://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/unified-threat-management/tech-specs.aspx which should give you an idea.

Hardware maximum for home users

1/. 4 CPU cores (real preferably) AMD and intel late models.

2/. 6gb of RAM

You can use a disk from about 30gb upwards, I would recommend at least 60 or maybe 120gb any larger takes too long to install the software.

The number of devices and networks you connect to your XG is only limited by your memory, CPU, firewall rules and other features you enable.

Ian

Hi Chris,

The APs will work with the XG, but not be managed by it. 

There is no home premium XG, the software for home users is the same that is loaded on to the enterprise boxes.

If you do a search of the Sophos site you should find something like thishttps://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/unified-threat-management/tech-specs.aspx which should give you an idea.

Hardware maximum for home users

1/. 4 CPU cores (real preferably) AMD and intel late models.

2/. 6gb of RAM

You can use a disk from about 30gb upwards, I would recommend at least 60 or maybe 120gb any larger takes too long to install the software.

The number of devices and networks you connect to your XG is only limited by your memory, CPU, firewall rules and other features you enable.

Ian

Hello rfcat_vk ,

have you any experiants in setup a sophos on this config, or whether there is a HW component against it?

CPU

Intel Celeron Processor J1900 (2M Cache, up to 2.42 GHz)

Low power consumption, and passively cooled,

Ethernet
4 Ethernet ports(Intel NIC's)

Or is the Intel processor not compatible/to slow ?

Thanks and best regards
Chris

Hi Chris,

yes, I have experience in setting up both UTM and XG on the J1900. Worked well in both cases. If you look at the specifications for the 85 and 105 I think you will find they run atom processors.

The reason I have moved away from the J1900 for the moment is I fiddle with the configuration and found that the changes were taking too  long to process. That was a bug I believe tat was fixed in mr3.

Ian

Hi LAN,

sounds great to start my dual firewall project (Sophos extranet and the existing in front of the intranet zone :)

What i've not found is a possibility to use the Sophos XG Home Premium and perhapse per addendum the possibility to use the XG firewall also for Mobile Device Management / Control in one?

Any experiance ... is it possible to Managed Mobile Devies (eg. blocking video/photo cam, configured VPN and wireless connections on the device) trough UEM (on-prem) and embedded at the XG-Firewall (eg. extention module for XG Home Premium) ?

Thanks forward for your reply
Chris

Sophos is working on a on console solution called Central. So basically everything is manageable via one console and does not need any kind of server on customer site. 

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/sophos-central.aspx

The point is, the Home version of XG and Central Endpoint is not able to speak Heartbeat.

https://ideas.sophos.com/forums/330219-xg-firewall/suggestions/10956915-using-sophos-home-for-home-licence

We need more feedback from you. Would suggest to vote and comment on this. 

Hi Chris,

there is no XG home premium.

If you want all the extra features to manage your home equipment you will need to purchase a commercial licences either hardware or software.

You can manage to a certain degree what your devices will be allowed to connect to, but there is no device management in the XG as MBP advises there is something coming, but I doubt that it will be available to home users unless paid for.

Ian

manbearpig said:

Sophos is working on a on console solution called Central. So basically everything is manageable via one console and does not need any kind of server on customer site. 

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/sophos-central.aspx

 

The point is, the Home version of XG and Central Endpoint is not able to speak Heartbeat.

https://ideas.sophos.com/forums/330219-xg-firewall/suggestions/10956915-using-sophos-home-for-home-licence

We need more feedback from you. Would suggest to vote and comment on this. 

 

Dear Sophos Team and Community Members,
the XG Firewall as Home Premium Edition is a good entry to the private market in my mind.
That's why i'm asking about a on-prem XG Firewall (Home Premium) with the possibility to buy a license (UEM) per year/or OTC, to manage also 10-15 private devices (iOS/macOS/Android/Windows7/10) trough the XG firewall (on-prem).
 
In my mind, the XG Firewall is the "single point of management" for Home Editions to show license duration, default licenses on the dashboard.

Is there any idea at Sophos to enable an XG Home Premium Firewall to Control the private devices (e.g. 10-15) by Sophos UEM without any Cloud requirement?

Thx forwar and best regards
Chris

Hi,

Sophos has no plans to put a management platform into XG firewall. Instead the management of XG will be possible out of Central. There is no reason to have something "on prem" for management if you could use a cloud platform without any limitations. As far as i know, there are no plans to put some kind of management into XG. 

Hi ManBear,

ok.... is there anly listing for XG HOme Premium Users that want to buy a hand of UEM licenses for their devices ?
currently, i get always a redirect to the price inquiry page. Is there a plan to offer UEM packages for private users ?

thx and best regards
Chris

You could purchase the "Business" version in some kind of online shops. 

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/legal/license-entitlement-and-usage-policy.aspx

So you have to buy the proper user license. 

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/medialibrary/PDFs/factsheets/sophosmobilecontroldsna.pdf?la=en