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Restoring a Sourcefire Appliance to Factory Defaults
Next Steps
Chapter 7
7. Type your final confirmation that you want to restore the appliance.
The restore process begins and shows its progress on the screen.
WARNING! Make sure you allow sufficient time for the restore process to
complete. In rare cases, If you quit (by pressing Ctrl + C or powering down
the appliance, for example), you could cause an unrecoverable error. If you
think the restore is taking too long or you experience any other issues with
the process, do not quit. Instead, contact Support.
8. When prompted, press Enter to continue.
The Defense Center ejects the CD. Remove the CD and close the tray.
9. When prompted again, press Enter to confirm that the restoration is
complete and that you want to reboot the appliance.
The appliance reboots.
10. Continue with Next Steps.
Next Steps
Restoring your appliance to factory default settings results in the loss of almost
all configuration and event data on the appliance, including bypass configurations
for devices deployed inline. For more information, see
Traffic Flow During the
Restore Process on page 199.
After you restore an appliance, you must complete an initial setup process:
• If you did not delete the appliance’s license and network settings, you can
use a computer on your management network to browse directly to the
appliance’s web interface to perform the setup. For more information, see
Initial Setup Page: Devices on page 93 and Initial Setup Page: Defense
Centers on page 100.
• If you deleted license and network settings, you must configure the
appliance as if it were new, beginning with configuring it to communicate
on your management network. See the next chapter, Setting Up a
Sourcefire 3D System Appliance on page 86.
Note that deleting license and network settings also resets display (console)
settings and, for Series
3 appliances, LOM settings. After you complete the initial
setup process:
• If you want to use a serial or SOL/LOM connection to access your
appliance’s console, you should redirect console output; see Redirecting
Console Output on page 82.
• If you want to use LOM, you must re-enable the feature as well as enable at
least one LOM user; see Enabling LOM and LOM Users on page 221.
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