Managing Your Network : Managing appliances : Managing appliance settings
  
Managing appliance settings
You can manage these appliance-specific settings in the Appliances page: Appliances tabs.
• Add policies to an appliance—You can add policies to an appliance. For details, see To add a policy to an appliance.
• Configure appliance pages—You can configure or modify appliance feature settings, such as host settings, SSL settings, base interfaces, and so on. For details, see Managing appliance pages.
• Edit appliance properties—You can modify appliance properties, such as hostname, IP address, username and password. For details, see To edit appliance properties.
• Run appliance utilities—You can update the appliance serial number or reconnect to the appliance. For details, see To run appliance utilities.
• View inherited policies—You can view inherited policies by for an appliance and modify policies. For details, see To run appliance utilities.
• View policy drift—You can view drift between SCC policies and the actual configuration on a managed appliance. For details, see To view policy drift between the SCC policies for the appliance and the appliance’s configuration.
To display appliance tabs
1. Choose Manage > Topology: Appliances to display the Appliances page.
2. Select the name of the appliance you want to edit to expand the page and display the Appliance tabs.
Displaying appliance tabs
3. You can perform operations on policies, configuration settings, appliance properties, appliance utilities (that is, reconnect and serial number), inherited policies, and policy drift.
To add a policy to an appliance
1. Choose Manage > Topology: Appliances to display the Appliances page.
2. Select the appliance name to expand the page and display the Appliance tabs.
3. Click the + Add/Remove Policies to display the pop-up window.
4. Select the policy you want to add. A message is displayed stating the policy has been added. To remove the policy, click Revert.
5. Click Done to return to the appliances and group table.
To edit appliance properties
1. Choose Manage > Topology: Appliances to display the Appliances page.
2. Select the appliance name to expand the page and display the Appliance tabs.
3. Select the Edit Appliance tab to display the appliance properties.
4. Complete the configuration as described in this table.
Control
Description
Serial Number
Displays the serial number for the appliance.
Hostname or IP Address
Specify the hostname or IP address for the appliance.
Comment
Specify a comment to help you identify the appliance.
Group
Select a group from the drop-down list. The default group is Global.
Branch Managed
Select to prevent any remote action from being performed on the specified appliance. For example, you wouldn’t be able to push configurations to this appliance from the SCC.
Trusted
Select to untrust an appliance. Only applicable to manually trusted appliances.
Auto Configure
(Use only when the policies have been configured.) Select to automatically push the current configuration (as defined by the policies for the appliance or appliance group) to the current remote appliance the next time it connects to the SCC.
This feature is available only when the remote appliance is disconnected. This setting is automatically disabled after the push.
User Name
Specify the username for the appliance.
Password/Confirm Password
Specify and confirm the password for the appliance.
Apply
Applies your settings to the running configuration.
5. Click Save to Disk to save your settings permanently.
To run appliance utilities
1. Choose Manage > Topology: Appliances to display the Appliances page.
2. Select the name of the appliance you want to edit to display the Edit Appliance tab.
3. Click Appliance Utilities to display the Editing Appliance Configuration <appliance>, Utilities panel.
4. Complete the configuration as described in this table.
Control
Description
Update
Click Update to update the current appliance serial number.
Sets the serial number for the appliance to the actual value stored on the appliance. The value is changed system-wide; the appliance remains accessible. The appliance must be connected to update the serial number.
Reconnect
Click Reconnect to reconnect the SCC to the current appliance.
You can establish a new connection to an appliance in about 30 seconds. Reconnecting doesn’t affect policy configurations.
To view policies inherited by an appliance
1. Choose Manage > Topology: Appliances to display the Appliances page.
2. Select the name of the appliance you want to view to display the Edit Appliance tab.
3. Select the Inherited Policies tab to display the policies for the appliance.
4. Select the page to display the inherited policies.
5. Select the policy to modify the policy. For details about policies, see Managing path selection.
To view policy drift between the SCC policies for the appliance and the appliance’s configuration
1. Choose Manage > Topology: Appliances to display the Appliances page.
2. Select an appliance.
3. Select the Policy Drift tab.
Policy Drift tab for an appliance
The page is divided into sections for SCC policy pages and appliance policy pages. Selecting an SCC policy page shows the configuration for that page in SCC. Selecting an appliance policy page redirects you to that configuration page in the Management Console for that appliance.
You can compare the two configurations to see where they are not synchronized. The SCC records any unsynchronized policy changes as policy drift. Additionally, changes made directly on a SteelHead appliance, even those that are reversed, are reported as policy drift here in the SCC’s Management Console. Previous versions of the SCC included limited information (an ≠ icon or simple notification) to indicate such changes. Now, the SCC reports policy drift changes page by page to aid in reviewing the specific settings.
Restarting the SCC clears all policy drift information.