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In case if the user wants to abandon the configuration changes made, he can click the
Ignore Changes button. On clicking the ‘Ignore Changes’ button, the configuration
changes stored in the temporary buffer location will be discarded.
To apply the configuration changes, the ‘Ignore Changes’ button will be displayed
and they cannot choose to ignore configuration changes. The ‘Ignore Changes’ button will
be disabled, only when there are pending configuration changes that need to be applied
yet to the device.
If the administrator tries to configure a configuration element to the inappropriate
value, the tooltip icon that appears next to each configuration element will provide the
details on the error.
On clicking the help icon that appears next to the configuration title, the help section
corresponds the current configuration page will be launched.
3.1. General Settings
The General settings page will allow configuring the host/network settings of the SIP
Firewall appliance. The device that has been made to work in bridging mode can either
choose to work with static IP assignment or to acquire the device IP via DHCP.
The page also allows to enable/disable the SSH Access to the device. The ‘Allow ICMP’
option will configure the device to respond to the ICMP ping messages sent to SIP Firewall
appliances or not.
By the SSH Access and ICMP Ping messages are allowed to the SIP Firewall appliance.
Figure 10: General Settings