User guide

Configuring Other Appliance Settings
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Proventia Network IPS G and GX Appliance User Guide
Appliance
management
From the Appliance Management Menu, you can perform the following tasks:
Agent management From the Agent Management Menu, you can perform the following tasks:
Netmask The subnet mask value for the network that connects to the
management port.
Gateway The IP address for the management gateway.
Primary DNS The IP address of the primary server you use to perform domain
name lookups (DNS search path).
Secondary DNS The IP address of the secondary server you use to perform domain
name lookups (DNS search path).
Item Description
Table 8: Appliance information (Continued)
Task Description
Back up the current
configuration
When you back up the current configuration, all custom
information is saved to an image file that resides on a special
backup partition on the appliance’s hard drive. When you restore
an image from the current backup file, the hard drive is re-imaged
with the information you have saved, and everything is overwritten
except the special backup partition.
Restore the configuration You have two options for restoring the configuration:
• Backup configuration—Restores the appliance settings to
the most current backup configuration.
• Factory default— Restores the appliance settings to the
factory default firmware version.
Note: This option preserves the current host, network, time
zone, and password settings.
Disable remote root access You can disable remote access to the root user. If you disable
remote access, the root user can only log on to the appliance from
a local console. After you disable access, only the admin user has
remote access permission.
You can re-enable remote root access by logging into the
appliance as the root user through a terminal emulation session,
and then typing
enable-root-access at the command prompt.
Reboot or shut down the
appliance
You can also reboot or shut down the appliance from the LCD
panel or Proventia Manager.
Table 9: Appliance management tasks
Task Description
View the agent status You can view the agent, engine, and daemon status.
Change the agent name The agent name is the appliance name that appears in the
management console, either Proventia Manager or SiteProtector.
If you change the agent name, the new name appears in
SiteProtector after the next heartbeat.
Table 10: Agent management tasks