Source fire Sourcefire 3D System - Scrubbing the Contents of the Hard Drive; Setting up Lights-Out Management

Version 5.2 Sourcefire 3D System Installation Guide 219
Restoring a Sourcefire Appliance to Factory Defaults
Scrubbing the Contents of the Hard Drive
Chapter 7
Scrubbing the Contents of the Hard Drive
SUPPORTED DEVICES: Any
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UPPORTED DEFENSE CENTERS: Any except DC1000/3000
You can securely scrub the hard drive on most Sourcefire appliances to ensure
that its contents can no longer be accessed. For example, if you need to return a
defective appliance that contains sensitive data, you can use this feature to
overwrite the data.
This mode of scrubbing the disk meets the following military standard:
STANDARDS
The DoD scrub sequence is compliant with the DoD 5220.22-M procedure
for sanitizing removable and non-removable rigid disks which requires
overwriting all addressable locations with a character, its complement, then
a random character, and verify. Please refer to the DoD document for
additional constraints.
WARNING! Scrubbing your hard drive results in the loss of all data on the
appliance, which is rendered inoperable.
To scrub the hard drive:
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CCESS: Admin
1. Follow the instructions in one of the following sections to display the restore
utility’s interactive menu, depending on how you are accessing the appliance:
• Starting the Restore Utility Using KVM or Physical Serial on page 203
• Starting the Restore Utility Using Lights-Out Management on page 205
Note that the DC1000 and DC3000 do not support this feature.
2. From the main menu, select 8 Wipe Contents of Disk.
3. When prompted, confirm that you want to scrub the hard drive.
The hard drive is scrubbed. The scrub process may take several hours to
complete; larger drives take longer.
Setting up Lights-Out Management
SUPPORTED DEVICES: Series 3
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UPPORTED DEFENSE CENTERS: Series 3
If you need to restore a Series 3 appliance to factory defaults and do not have
physical access to the appliance, you can use Lights-Out Management (LOM) to
perform the restore process. You cannot restore a Series
2 appliance using LOM.
Only Series
3 appliances support LOM.