Config Backup / Config Upload

Running configuration of the EdgeOS System can be saved or applied/restored from the EdgeOS /Web portal from this section of the Configuration Wizard, see below.

Creating new Configuration Backup

To initiate a new Configuration backup, perform the following steps.

Steps

·       Click Next icon on the Firewall page or click General Settings. The General Settings page appears.

·       Click Config Backup/Config Upload. The Config Backup/Config Upload section becomes available, see Figure Config Backup/Config Upload.

·       Click Config Backup. The Available Configuration Backups table becomes available. This table has listing of the prior backups that are available in the system. If there are no backups yet, this table will be empty. Below the table there is a subsection, Initiate New Configuration Backup, see Figure Initiate New Configuration Backup.

·       Select Configuration Backup Type. Configurations are grouped as below. see Figure Select Configuration Backup Type.

·       All Configuration

·       Interfaces - All the LAN/WAN interface configuration and WAN profiles

·       Traffic Policies - All traffic policies, include Device policies.

·       Networks - All Access Network configuration, including DHCP reservation.

·       Firewall Rules

·       After selecting the Configuration which needs to be backed up, user can add comments to identify the backup. This is an optional step.

·       Click on Start Backup button.

Once the backup is ready, it will show in the available Configuration backups along with the backup type, user login through which the backup has been created and the time of backup creation, see Figure Available Config Backups. By clicking the download icon next to the Configuration back, the saved configuration can be transferred/saved to  the local device.

Uploading Configuration from Backup

To initiate a Configuration upload, perform the following steps.

Steps

·       Click Next on the Firewall page or click General Settings. The General Settings page appears.

·       Click Config Backup/Config Upload. The Config Backup/Config Upload section becomes available, see Figure Config Backup/Config Upload.

·       Click Config Upload. The Previous Configuration Uploads table becomes available. This table has listing of the prior uploads that have been done on the system. If there are no uploads, this table will be empty. Below the table there is a subsection, Initiate New Configuration Upload, see Figure Initiate New Configuration Upload.

·       To initiate an upload, click on icon next to Initiate New Configuration Upload. Select a configuration from the list of backed up configurations. The selected configuration will appear next to the upload icon, see Figure Upload Configuration.

·       Click Apply Configuration button. The configuration upload will be initiated and will take a few minutes, see Figure Apply Configuration Once configuration is applied, the services will be restarted and corresponding message will be visible, see Figure Apply Configuration Intermediate Step. The uploaded configuration will also be visible in the Uploads table. The last step will be to reboot the server to apply the configuration, see Figure Apply Configuration Reboot Server.

·       Click Reboot icon. A confirmation Pop-up will be available, see Figure Reboot Confirmation. Click Confirm to reboot the server. Once the server comes up, the configuration will be uploaded on the system.