Provisioning Basics

Figure 27 Appliances view

By default, automatic status refresh is disabled. You can refresh the status manually by selecting the target appliances and clicking the Refresh Status button . If you prefer, you can have ETEMS automatically poll the status of the appliances. If the appliance status is anything other than , take action as described in Table 28.

To configure automatic status checking:

1On the Edit menu, click Preferences.

2In the Preferences window, expand the ETEMS listing and select Status.

3Click Enable automatic status refresh to have ETEMS automatically refresh the status of the appliances. Clear the check box to disable the feature.

4If you enabled automatic status checking, enter the interval in minutes in the Refresh Interval box. The default refresh interval is 60 minutes and can be changed in one minute increments from 1 to 10,080 minutes (7 days).

5Click Apply, and then click OK. .

Table 28

Appliance status indicators

 

 

 

 

 

 

Status

 

 

 

Indicator

 

Description

 

 

 

 

Unequal configurations. The ETEMS configuration differs from the configuration stored

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

on an appliance. Compare configurations to view discrepancies (see page 100).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OK. The ETEMS and appliance configurations are the same, and the appliance is

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

reachable.

 

 

 

 

Appliance reboot required (see page 101).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reload policies required for policies to take effect (see page 412).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Status unknown. The appliance is not responding to ETEMS’s attempts to communicate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

with it (see page 224), or ETEMS hasn’t yet queried the appliance status.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Appliance unmanageable due to an incompatible hardware/software combination (see

 

 

 

 

page 226).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The appliance is in an error state. See the Installation Guide for your appliance model

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

for information about error recovery.

 

 

 

 

 

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Black Box EncrypTight, ET1000A, ET0010A, ET0100A manual Appliances view, To configure automatic status checking

EncrypTight, ET0100A, ET0010A, ET1000A specifications

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