Chapter 3
Setting up Skybox Appliance
Skybox version 11.6.100
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To configure the date and time
1. On the System tab, select Date and Time Configuration.
2. To configure the date and time manually:
a. Select Manual Date and Time Configuration.
b. Click Change Date and Time; set the date and time for the Skybox time zone.
c. Click Change Time Zone; set the time zone for the location of your Skybox Appliance,
so that reports and other data are timestamped correctly.
3. To set the date and time from NTP servers:
a. Select Automatic Date and Time Configuration Using NTP Server.
b. Click Change NTP Servers; add the IP address or DNS of up to 3 NTP servers to use.
If you specify multiple NTP servers, Skybox Appliance synchronizes to the average time
of the servers.
c. Click Change Time Zone; set the time zone for the location of your Skybox Appliance,
so that reports and other data are timestamped correctly.
What’s next
After installing and configuring Skybox Appliance, you must install Skybox Manager on at least
1 remote machine (see
). Skybox Manager is required to
configure certain admin components in the product. However, almost all user functions are
done in Skybox Web Client and not in Skybox Manager. Skybox Manager is a Java client and
should be installed on a Windows PC. The Skybox Manager installer is obtained directly from
the Support tab of Skybox Appliance Administration.
Using Skybox for change tracking
You can use Skybox to track changes on firewalls. Although much change information can be
collected directly from the firewalls, additional information (including a timestamp and the user
who made the change) is taken from syslog change events that are sent to the syslog server
on your Skybox Appliance. You collect the change events using Change Tracking Events –
Syslog Import tasks.
syslog server
The syslog server on Skybox Appliance is preconfigured and is enabled by default.
Updates to the configuration files of the syslog server are included in Skybox Appliance
operating system updates.
