Cisco Cisco Content Security Management Appliance M160 Guía Del Usuario
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AsyncOS 8.1 for Cisco Content Security Management User Guide
Chapter 14 Common Administrative Tasks
Step 3
If you use the Safelist/Blocklist feature, export the Safelist/Blocklist database to another machine.
Step 4
Suspend any listeners on your Email Security appliances.
Step 5
Wait for the mail queue to empty.
Step 6
Log in to the CLI of the appliance you want to revert.
When you run the
revert
command, several warning prompts are issued. Once these warning prompts
are accepted, the revert action takes place immediately. Therefore, do not begin the reversion process
until after you have completed the prereversion steps.
until after you have completed the prereversion steps.
Step 7
From the command-line prompt, type the revert command and respond to the prompts.
The following example shows the revert
command:
m650p03.prep> revert
This command will revert the appliance to a previous version of AsyncOS.
WARNING: Reverting the appliance is extremely destructive.
The following data will be destroyed in the process:
- all configuration settings (including listeners)
- all log files
- all databases (including messages in Virus Outbreak and Policy
quarantines)
- all reporting data (including saved scheduled reports)
- all message tracking data
- all Cisco IronPort Spam Quarantine message and end-user safelist/blocklist data
Only the network settings will be preseved.
Before running this command, be sure you have:
- saved the configuration file of this appliance (with passwords
unmasked)
- exported the Cisco IronPort Spam Quarantine safelist/blocklist database
to another machine (if applicable)
- waited for the mail queue to empty
Reverting the device causes an immediate reboot to take place.
After rebooting, the appliance reinitializes itself and reboots again to the desired
version.
Do you want to continue? yes
Are you sure you want to continue? yes
Available versions
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1. 7.2.0-390
2. 6.7.6-020
Please select an AsyncOS version: 1
You have selected "7.2.0-390".
Reverting to "testing" preconfigure install mode.
The system will now reboot to perform the revert operation.
Step 8
Wait for the appliance to reboot twice.
Step 9
Log in to the appliance using the CLI.