Managing configuration files
You can save, activate, import, and revert configurations under Administration > System Settings: Configurations.
Each Edge has an active, running configuration and a written, saved configuration.
When you Apply your settings in the Management Console, the values are applied to the active running configuration, but the values are not written to disk and saved permanently.
When you Save your configuration settings, the values are written to disk and saved permanently. They take effect after you restart the optimization service.
Each time you save your configuration settings, they are written to the current running configuration, and a backup is created. For example, if the running configuration is myconfig and you save it, myconfig is backed up to myconfig.bak and myconfig is overwritten with the current configuration settings.
The Configuration Manager is a utility that saves configurations as backups or active configuration backups.
The Configuration Manager also includes an Import Configuration utility to support these common use cases:
• Replacing a Edge appliance—If you are replacing one Edge for another, you can import all of the network information (although not the licenses) and disconnect the old Edge before you switch configurations on the new Edge.
• Configuration template for a large deployment—You can avoid entering the complete Edge configuration for every appliance in a large deployment by setting up a template Edge and importing template settings to the configuration list.
Some configuration settings require that you restart the optimization service for the settings to take effect. F.
Under Current Configuration: <filename>, these configuration options are available:
Current Configuration: <configuration-name>
• View Running Config displays the running configuration settings in a new browser window.
• Save saves settings that have been applied to the running configuration.
• Revert reverts your settings to the running configuration.
Save Current Configuration
Specifies a new filename to save settings that have been applied to the running configuration as a new file, and then click Save.
To import a configuration from another appliance, these configuration options are available:
Import a New Configuration
Displays the controls to import a configuration from another appliance.
IP/Hostname
Specifies the IP address or hostname of the SteelHead from which you want to import the configuration.
Remote Admin Password
Specifies the administrator password for the remote SteelHead.
Remote Config Name
Specifies the name of the configuration you want to import from the remote SteelHead.
New Config Name
Specifies a new, local configuration name.
Import Shared Data Only
Takes a subset of the configuration settings from the imported configuration and combines them with the current configuration to create a new configuration. Import shared data is enabled by default.
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When the Import Shared Data Only check box is selected, activates the imported configuration and makes it the current configuration. This is the default.
When the Import Shared Data Only check box is not selected, adds the imported configuration to the Configuration list. It doesn’t become the active configuration until you select it from the list and click Activate.
Change Active Configuration
Specifies the configuration to activate from the drop-down list.
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Activate, and then restart the optimization service. For details, see
Starting and stopping the optimization service.
Select the configuration name to display the configuration settings in a new browser window.