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Restoring a Sourcefire Appliance to Factory Defaults
Setting up Lights-Out Management
Chapter 7
• The password may have up to 20 alphanumeric characters. Longer
passwords are not supported for LOM users. A user’s LOM password is the
same as that user’s system password.
• Series 3 Defense Centers and 8000 Series devices can have up to 13 LOM
users. 7000 Series devices can have up to eight LOM users.
TIP! For detailed instructions on the following tasks, see the Configuring
Appliance Settings chapter in the Sourcefire 3D System User Guide.
To enable LOM:
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1. Select System > Local > Configuration, then click Console Configuration.
2. Your next step depends on your appliance model:
• To enable LOM on Defense Centers and 8000 Series devices, enable
remote access using the Physical Serial Port before you can specify the
LOM IP address, netmask, and default gateway (or use DHCP to have
these values automatically assigned).
• On 7000 Series devices, select Lights Out Management to configure LOM
settings. 7000 Series devices do not support LOM and physical serial
access at the same time.
IMPORTANT! The LOM IP address must be different from the management
interface IP address of the appliance.
To enable LOM capabilities for a Sourcefire 3D System user:
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1. Select System > Local > User Management, then either edit an existing user to
add LOM permissions, or create a new user that you will use for LOM access
to the appliance.
2. On the User Configuration page, enable the Administrator role if it is not
already enabled.
3. Enable the Allow Lights-Out Management Access check box and save your
changes.
Installing an IPMI Utility
You use a third-party IPMI utility on your computer to create an SOL connection to
the appliance.
If your computer is running Linux or Mac OS, use IPMItool. Although IPMItool is
standard with many Linux distributions, you must install IPMItool on a Mac. First,
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