Publishing a Configuration Master Now

Before you begin

See important requirements and information in Before You Publish a Configuration Master.

Procedure


Step 1

On the Security Management appliance, choose Web > Utilities > Publish to Web Appliances.

Step 2

Click Publish Configuration Now.

Step 3

“System-generated job name” is selected by default, or enter a user-defined job name (80 characters or fewer).

Step 4

Select the Configuration Master to publish.

Note

If you configure a subset of a particular version of configuration master and assign a Web Security appliance, then the sub configuration master version that is associated to the Web Seurity appliance is displayed in the drop-down list.

Step 5

Select the Web Security appliances to which you want to publish the Configuration Master. Choose “All assigned appliances” to publish the configuration to all appliances assigned to the Configuration Master.

or

Choose “Select appliances in list” to display the list of appliances assigned to the Configuration Master. Select the appliances to which you want to publish the configuration.

Step 6

Click Publish.

Red progress bars and text on the Publish in Progress page indicate that an error occurred during publishing. If another job is currently publishing, then your request will be executed when the previous job is complete.

Note
Details of the job in progress also appear on the Web > Utilities > Publish to Web Appliances page. Click Check Progress to access the Publish in Progress page.

What to do next

Check to be sure your publish was completely successful. See Viewing Publish History. Items that were not published completely will be noted.