McAfee WebShield e500, Installation Manual

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Installation Guide — English
ENG - 56 McAfee WebShield e500 Appliance version 2.5
Restoring your settings
When you restore the appliance’s settings with a configuration file, you must
ensure that any other necessary changes are performed. For example, you can
use the same configuration file for multiple appliances but those appliances
cannot share IP addresses (IP addresses must be unique) so you would need
to modify the IP addresses accordingly.
The appliance can use configuration files that were generated by an earlier
version of the appliance. Therefore, if you generated such a file before
upgrading your appliance, you can simply use the configuration file to restore
your previous settings to the upgraded appliance.
To restore the appliance’s settings from a set of configuration files:
1. Open the web browser on the computer that contains the backup
configuration files, then access the appliance’s user interface using the
appropriate URL, and log on (see
Step 2 on page 32 through Step 7 on
page 35 ).
If you are already accessing the appliance’s user interface but the
configuration files are on a different computer, transfer the files to the
computer that you are using.
2. Depending on how you are configuring the appliance, do one of the
following:
• If you recently upgraded the appliance’s software or you are
configuring the appliance for the first time, the System
Configuration page contains an extra Restore Configuration panel.
Click
Restore Configuration (on the System Configuration page)
to access this panel.
NOTE: The Restore Configuration panel is only available on
the System Configuration panel when the appliance is first
configured.
• If you have configured the appliance before, select System
Maintenance (in the navigation bar) to display the System
Maintenance page. Focus on the File and URL text boxes next to
“Restore System Settings.”