Option definitions — General settings

Apply Policy

By default, Allow Policy Push is enabled. Deselecting Allow Policy Push doesn't apply the configuration or policy changes you have made and this allows you to review the changes. After reviewing the configuration or policy changes, select Allow Policy Push.

Date and Time

Options for setting the date and time for your appliances:

DNS

Define the DNS servers to be used by your appliances.

Note

Until you apply DNS server information to your appliances or clusters, those appliances use the default DNS information provided by DHCP on your network.

Use the add and delete icons to add or remove DNS Servers from the list. Use the move up and move down icons to arrange the host servers in your preferred order.

Define the IP address for each DNS server.

Note

You cannot save the General policy until you have configured at least one DNS server.

Static Routing

Manually define the routing options available to your appliances.

Use the add and delete icons to add or remove host information from the list. Use the move up and move down icons to arrange the routing information in your preferred order.

Define the Subnet and Gateway addresses for each route.

SSH

Define the Secure Shell (SSH) access settings for your appliances.

Select your required option from the drop-down list:

Selecting Allow remote login for these hosts only enables the Hosts table, allowing you to define the hosts that accept remote login using SSH.

Use the add and delete icons to add or remove host information from the list. Use the move up and move down icons to arrange the host systems in your preferred order.

The SSH host information can be host names with wildcards (for example, *.domain.name), or IP addresses with subnet masks.

Note

If you select Allow remote login for these hosts only, you cannot save the General policy until you have configured at least one SSH host.

Logging

By default, your appliances each store their own log information locally. To configure the appliances to remotely store their syslog information, select Store log data remotely and define the syslog servers to use.

Use the add and delete icons to add or remove syslog servers from the list. Use the move up and move down icons to arrange the servers in your preferred order.

Define each syslog server by specifying the Protocol (either TCP or UDP), the domain name or IP address for the Syslog Server, and the Port to use.

The default value for the Protocol is TCP, with the default Port being 514.

Note

If you select Store log data remotely, you cannot save the General policy until you have configured at least one syslog server.