Black Box ET0100A Creating a Configuration Template, Importing Configurations from a CSV File

Provisioning Appliances

Related topics:

●“Creating a Configuration Template” on page 112

●“Importing Configurations from a CSV File” on page 112

●“Changing Configuration Import Preferences” on page 115

●“Checking the Time on New Appliances” on page 116

Creating a Configuration Template

A default configuration is like a template that contains common settings to be used on all appliances of a particular hardware model and software version. Using a customized default configuration can save a lot of time when you are provisioning a large number of appliances.

If you have two types of appliances in your network—for example, ET0100As running ETEP1.6 software and ET0010As running ETEP1.5 software—you can create two templates, one for the 1.6 ETEPs and another for the 1.5 ETEPs. In each template, add the settings that are common to each appliance type, such as local and remote port auto-negotiation and link speed settings, log settings and syslog servers, NTP server, EncrypTight settings, and the password that ETEMS uses to communicate with the appliances. After the default configurations are created and saved, any new appliances of that hardware/ software type will have the defaults settings included, eliminating the need to re-enter that data.

Related topic:

●“Working with Default Configurations” on page 110

Importing Configurations from a CSV File

When you have a large number of appliances to add to ETEMS, you can save time by entering the basic appliance information in a CSV file and then importing the data into ETEMS. Take note of the following guidelines and restrictions for importing configurations:

●Passwords

Use the default password admin when importing configurations, and then use ETEMS to configure user names and passwords after the import.

●Local and remote port addresses

On ETEPs, remote and local interface addresses are optional configuration items. They are needed when operating the ETEP in non-transparent mode to use the virtual IP feature in EncrypTight. If you are operating in transparent mode, you do not need to enter these addresses.

See “Importing Remote and Local Interface Addresses” on page 114 for more information about remote and local interface formatting.

NOTE

If you are importing configurations for ETEPs with software version 1.6 or later, or you intend to upgrade the ETEPs that you are importing to software version 1.6 or later, make sure your EncrypTight license covers the additional ETEPs. After the import, you need to set the appropriate throughput speeds on the ETEPs and install licenses. If you attempt to set throughput speeds that are faster than the license allows, ETEMS will mark the configuration as being in error and you will not be able to save it.

To create the import file, enter the data in Excel and save it as .csv file or enter the data directly in Notepad. You must adhere to the formats shown in Figure 32 and Figure 33. The first line in the file

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