Black Box ET1000A, ET0010A Saving an Appliance Configuration, Saving appliance configurations

Provisioning Basics

●“Provisioning Large Numbers of Appliances” on page 111

●“Provisioning PEPs” on page 147

Saving an Appliance Configuration

You can save an appliance configuration at any time during the configuration process. Appliance configurations are saved as part of the EncrypTight workspace. Unsaved changes are indicated with an asterisk on the editor tab.

ETEMS provides several ways to save appliance configurations.

Table 26	Saving appliance configurations
Action		Description
Save and New (in the New		Saves the configuration in the active appliance editor and
Appliance editor)		opens a fresh New Appliance editor.
		The second appliance editor window retains the settings from
		the first appliance with the exception of the appliance name and
		management IP address, which must be unique for each
		appliance.
Save (in the New Appliance editor)		Saves the configuration in the active appliance editor.
		Saves the configuration in the active appliance editor.
File > Save		Saves the configuration in the active appliance editor.
File > Save all		Saves pending changes in all open appliance editors.

To close open editors without saving the configurations, click File > Close or File > Close All. Click no when prompted to save your changes.

NOTE

ETEMS will not save a configuration that contains an error. ETEMS indicates the tab and the field that contains the error with .

Related topic:

●“Working with the EncrypTight Workspace” on page 69

Pushing Configurations to Appliances

After defining the configuration for each EncrypTight appliance, you will push the configurations to the targeted appliances in a put operation. On some appliance models you can also push a policy file during a put operation.

To push ETEMS configurations to appliances:

1In the Appliance Manager, select the target appliances in the Appliances view. Use SHIFT+click to select a contiguous block of appliances; use CTRL+click to select non-contiguous appliances.

2On the Tools menu, click Put Configurations.

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