Saving and Exporting the Current Configuration File

Using the Current Configuration section of the Management Appliance > System Administration > Configuration File page, you can save the current configuration file to your local machine, save it on the appliance (placed in the configuration directory in the FTP/SCP root), or email it to the address specified.

Masking the passphrase

Optionally, mask the user’s passphrases by selecting the check box. Masking a passphrase causes the original, encrypted passphrase to be replaced with “*****” in the exported or saved file.

Note
Configuration files with masked passphrases cannot be loaded back into AsyncOS.

Encrypting the passphrase

You can encrypt the user’s passphrases by clicking the Encrypt passphrases in the Configuration Files checkbox. The following are the critical security parameters in the configuration file that will be encrypted.

  • Certificate private keys

  • RADIUS passwords

  • LDAP bind passwords

  • Local users' password hashes

  • SNMP password

  • Outgoing SMTP authentication passwords

  • PostX encryption keys

  • PostX encryption proxy password

  • FTP Push log subscriptions' passwords

  • IPMI LAN password

  • Updater server URLs

You can also configure this in the command-line interface using the saveconfig command.