Black Box ET1000A Appliance Trim Kit User Manual


 
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6 Getting Started with ETEMS
This section includes the following topics:
ETEMS Quick Tour
Understanding the ETEMS Workbench
Understanding Roles
Modifying Communication Preferences
ETEMS Quick Tour
ETEMS is the appliance management feature of EncrypTight. ETEMS provides the ability to provision
and manage multiple EncrypTight appliances from a central location. The primary tasks that ETEMS
supports are:
“Defining Appliance Configurations” on page 83
“Pushing Configurations to Appliances” on page 84
“Upgrading Appliance Software” on page 85
“Comparing Configurations” on page 85
“Maintenance and Troubleshooting” on page 86
“Policy and Certificate Support” on page 87
Defining Appliance Configurations
When configuring a new appliance (File > New Appliance), the first thing to do is select the product
family and software version. ETEMS displays a configuration screen tailored to the specified appliance
model and software version. On most appliance models the Interfaces tab contains the fields required to
identify an appliance: its name, password access to the appliance, and the interface IP addresses.
Select other tabs to configure additional items on the appliance, such as EncrypTight features, SNMP or
logging. The availability of specific tabs and configuration options varies depending on your appliance
model and software version.
Most of the information contained on the additional tabs will be the same for all of the appliances of a
particular model that you configure. To streamline the configuration of a large number of appliances, use