
S W G U s e r G u i d e
Chapter 17: Maintaining Your System
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Importing From and Exporting Policy Databases
Administrators can export Security, HTTPS, Identification and Logging policy databases on a Policy
Server to a file. They can then import policies, rules, conditions, and condition options from the
exported database file into another Policy server. This only refers to administrator‐created Policies,
Rules and Conditions, not to M86 default Policies, Rules and Conditions.
When exporting, the exported files are encrypted and saved to a location specified by the
administrator such as the local disk or network drive.
When importing items that have the same name as existing items, to avoid potential conflicts, you
can choose to leave the existing items in place. overwrite existing items, or save the imported items
under different names.
This task contains the following procedures:
•
To export a policy database to a file
•
To import policies, rules, and conditions from an exported database file
•
To import condition options from an exported database file
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To export a policy database to a file
1. Select
Administration
Æ
Export/Import
Æ
Export
.
The File Download message appears.
2. Click
Save
and choose the location to save this file.
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To import policies, rules, and conditions from an exported database file
1. Select
Administration
Æ
Export/Import
Æ
Import
.
The Import window is displayed.
2. Select the exported database file, as follows:
a. In the tree pane, right‐click the
Database
Files
(root) entry, and choose
Import
Policies
.
Alternatively, you can click the
icon to the left of the
Database
Files
entry.
b. In the Import Policy screen, click
Browse
and select the file to be imported.
c. Click
Import
. The nodes for import appear in the
Import
Policies
tree.
3. Select and import the policy as follows:
a. Expand the tree pane, and right‐click the policy that you want to import and choose Import.
The policy import window is displayed.
b. Select the desired action:
• To change one or more policy conditions while leaving the remaining unchanged, choose
Leave
original
.
• To completely overwrite the existing policy with the imported policy having the same
name, choose
Overwrite
.
• To rename the policy so as not to overwrite the existing policy with the same name,
choose
Rename
, and specify the new name for the policy.
NOTE:
Items
for
which
the
administrator
does
not
have
write
permissions
will
not
be
exported.