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Security Console & Scan Engine Appliance Guide:
Using the Front Panel Buttons
You can configure the Appliance by using the buttons on the front panel to navigate through a set of menus displayed on the LCD.
The menu structure for the appliance appears on
pages 7 and 8.
At the top screen level of the LCD, the IP address of the Appliance appears beneath the words
Browse To
.
This alternates with the phrase
Configure
followed by
Press X to configure
.
To access the menus from the top level, press the Cancel/Escape
To toggle between menus, submenus, or options press the Up arrow ( ) and Down arrow ( ) buttons.
To select a menu or option, press the Select button ( ) or the Right arrow ( ) button.
When you are in a menu, press the Cancel/Escape ( ) button to take you out of the menu and back to the top level.
If you are several sub-menus deep, press the Cancel/Escape ( ) button return to the previous menu.
To answer “yes” to a confirmation question, press the Select button ( ). To answer “no”, press the Cancel/Escape ( ) button.
Entering characters
If you are in a configuration menu that requires you to enter characters, such as for setting an e-mail address, press the Up arrow ( )
and Down arrow ( ) buttons to select characters. Pressing the Up arrow ( ) button repeatedly from the beginning will advance you
through the alphabet, followed by a sequence of 29 special characters, including a blank space, and then numerals. Pressing the Down
arrow ( ) repeatedly from the beginning will advance you through special characters, followed by numerals, and then the alphabet.
If you are in a menu that only requires numerals, such as for entering an IP address, pressing the arrow keys will advance you through
numerals only. After you select a character for a given space, press the Right arrow ( ) button to move to the next character space.
Press the Cancel/Escape ( ) button to cancel any unsaved changes and start again. Press the ( ) to save entered characters.
See page 4 for information on manually entering and saving changes for network settings.
Note:
Whenever you make and confirm a configuration change, NeXpose restarts. The restart message appears after a few seconds, and only at the top level.
Note:
The configuration script does not display a confirmation for every changed setting. For example, it doesn’t request confirmation for changes to date or time settings.
( ) button.
