Maintain Back Up

Use Maintain==>Back Up to capture configuration values for one or more PortMaster products to an ASCII file. Backup files can be edited in an ordinary text editor such as NotePad.

Use Maintain ==>Restore to enter these values into the configuration of other PortMaster products, or to overwrite existing configurations.

The backup and restore functions are useful for the following:

CAUTION! Backing up the user table does not automatically store the individual passwords. The administrative (!root) and RADIUS and ChoiceNet secrets are not saved by the backup operation. Restoring a user table from a PMVision backup does not restore user passwords, and the user will not be prompted for a password in a login attempt.

To back up:

    Specify whether the entire configuration or specific sections are to be backed up. If you are not backing up the entire configuration, check each section to be backed up.

  1. Enter a filename for the backed up configuration. Click Browse to specify an existing file. Any data in the existing file will be overwritten.

  2. Use the Comments area to log pertinent information about the configurations being backed up. Later this might be the only identifying information for the backed up configurations.
  3. At the bottom of the panel, click Back Up.
  4. (Optional) Back up user passwords and ChoiceNet secrets.