Configuring Migration of Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines

Before you begin

  • Make sure that you have completed all procedures to this point in the table in Centralizing Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines
  • For caveats and information about the migration process, see the “About Migration of Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines” section in the “Centralizing Services on a Cisco Content Security Management appliance” chapter in the documentation for your Email Security appliance.

Procedure

Step 1

[New Web Interface Only] On the Security Management appliance, click to load the legacy web interface.

Step 2

Choose Management Appliance > Centralized Services > Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines.

Step 3

Click Launch Migration Wizard.

Step 4

Choose a migration method:

If

Choose

Additional Information

  • You want to migrate all existing policy quarantines from all associated Email Security appliances,

    and

  • Policy quarantines with the same names have identical settings on all Email Security appliances,

    and

  • You want to merge all policy quarantines with the same name on all Email Security appliances into a single centralized policy quarantine having that name.

Automatic

All centralized policy quarantines that are created using this process are automatically configured with default settings, regardless of the settings in the quarantines with the same names on the Email Security appliance.

You must update those settings after migration.

  • Policy quarantines with the same names have different settings on different Email Security appliances and you want to maintain the differences,

    or

  • You want to migrate some local quarantines and delete all others,

    or

  • You want to migrate local quarantines to centralized quarantines with different names

    or

  • You want to merge local quarantines with different names into a single centralized quarantine.

Custom

Any centralized policy quarantines that you create during migration, instead of before migration, will be configured with the default settings for new quarantines.

You should update those settings after migration.

Step 5

Click Next.

Step 6

If you selected Automatic:

Verify that the policy quarantines to be migrated and other information on this page match your expectations.

Virus, Outbreak, and File Analysis quarantines will also be migrated.

Step 7

If you selected Custom:

  • To select whether to show quarantines from all Email Security appliances or just one., choose an option from the Show Quarantines from: list.

  • Select which local policy quarantines move to each centralized policy quarantine.

  • Create additional centralized policy quarantines as needed. These will have default settings.

  • Quarantine names are case-sensitive.

  • Any quarantines remaining in the table on the left will not be migrated and will be deleted from the Email Security appliance upon migration.

  • You can change the quarantine mapping by selecting a quarantine from the table on the right and clicking Remove from Centralized Quarantine.

Step 8

Click Next as needed.

Step 9

Submit and commit your changes.

What to do next

Return to the next step in the table in Centralizing Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines.