The sophos support told us to update to SFM 17.1 MR1 to resolve some issues with the delay of distribrution of rules to our firewalls. As we are in the beginning of our project wie have only our central XG 550 cluster connected. The cluster is running on SFOS 17.5 MR7.
After the update there was a mismatch in the configuration on the firewall cluster and the SFM. Basically I saw no groups and from 100 Rules on the SFM only the first 70 rules were in the configuration in increasing order. Removing and rejoining the firewall from SFM did not help. We connected an newly installed SFOS 17.5 MR8 firewall which showed up in a correct manner and also with a group. But the configuration was quite small (5 rules).
There seems to be no up to date compatibility guide online but older guide let me think that the previous version SFOS 17.5 MR7 should be supported. The announcement also shows no hints that all firewalls need to be on SFOS 17.5 MR8 before updating and the support did not tell us to do so.
Did somebody else notice that? What are the experience regarding the stability of SFM - Firewalls. In our case a backward replication from SFM -> Firewall of the wrong rules probably would have left our company out of service for several hours as we did a lot of changes recently.
What are the experiences with Sophos Central Management? Have you seen things like this happen there too? How is the performance and stability. Is there a compatibility guide for sophos central management?
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