Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance S670 User Guide

Adding, editing, and removing user accounts

AsyncOS software upgrades

Updates to security components

System time

All configuration settings within the Web Security appliance can be managed 
using a single configuration file. The file is maintained in XML (Extensible 
Markup Language) format.

To archive the current configuration, you can use the System Administration > 
Configuration Summary page to print a summary of appliance settings, and you 
can use the System Administration > Configuration File page to create a local 
copy of the system configuration file. The system configuration file can be used 
to import a complete configuration or to load a unique sub-section and update 
specific settings.

When you save the configuration file, you can choose a system-generated name 
or define your own file name. You can mask the user’s passwords by clicking a 
checkbox. Masking a password causes the original, encrypted password to be 
replaced with “*****” in the exported or saved file. Please note, however, that 
configuration files with masked passwords cannot be loaded back into AsyncOS 
for Web.

Use the Load Configuration section of the System Administration > 
Configuration File page to load new configuration information into the Web 
Security appliance. You can load information using any of the following methods: 

Place information in the 

configuration

 directory and upload it.

Upload the configuration file directly from your local machine.

Paste configuration information directly into the web interface. 

To load a copy of the configuration file, paste the configuration directly into the 
web interface page. At the top of the configuration file you must include the 
following tag:

<?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”ISO-8859-1”?> <!DOCTYPE config SYSTEM 

“config.dtd”> <config> ... 

 

</config>