Configuring Smart-1 Appliances

In This Section: Starting the Appliance Initial Configuration Advanced Configuration

Starting the Appliance

Connect the appliance to a power source and turn on the appliance. When the appliance is ready, you can run the First Time Configuration Wizard to configure it.

To start the appliance:

1. Connect the power cables to the power supply units in the rear panel.
2. From the rear of the appliance, press the Power button.

   The appliance turns on.

Available Software Images

The Smart-1 405/Smart-1 410 appliance comes with different software images. Select the software image you want to use. Reverting to a software image takes a few minutes.

To follow the installation progress and see when the appliance is ready, connect to the appliance with a serial console cable.

For more about software images, see the Smart-1 405/Smart-1 410 home page.

Initial Configuration

Configure the appliance with the First Time Configuration Wizard. See the Installation and Upgrade Guide related to the software version.

Note: For the Gaia platform R80.10 version, see the R80.10 Installation and Upgrade Guide. For the Gaia platform R77.30 version, see the R77 Versions Installation and Upgrade Guide for Gaia Platforms.

Go to the Installing Security Gateways on Appliances section, and see the instructions to use the First Time Configuration Wizard.

Advanced Configuration

You can configure advanced options on Gaia from the Portal or the CLI.

Connecting to the Smart-1 Appliances CLI

To connect to the command line interface of the Smart-1 Appliances, use one of these:

• The included serial console cable (DB9 DTE to RJ45), with terminal emulation software, such as PuTTY (from Windows) or Minicom (from Unix/Linux).

  Connection parameters for Smart-1 Appliances are: 9600bps, 8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit (8N1), Flow Control - None.

• An SSH connection to the management interface (if SSHD is configured).

Configuring SmartEvent and SmartReporter

To learn how to connect the SmartEvent components to a Security Management Server and to a Multi-Domain Management Server:

• For R80.10 and higher – See the Logging and Monitoring Administration Guide for your version. Note: For R80.10, see the R80.10 Logging and Monitoring Administration Guide.
• For R77.30 – See the R77 Versions SmartEvent Administration Guide and the R77 Versions SmartReporter Administration Guide.