Cisco Cisco Content Security Management Appliance M1070 Mode D'Emploi

This section describes the features used to configure the network operation of the appliance. These 
features give you direct access to the hostname, DNS, and routing settings that you configured using the 
System Setup Wizard in 

.

The following features are described:

sethostname

DNS configuration (in the GUI and by using the 

dnsconfig

 command in the CLI)

Routing configuration (in the GUI and by using the 

routeconfig

 and 

setgateway

 commands in the 

CLI

)

dnsflush

Password

The hostname is used to identify the system at the CLI prompt. You must enter a fully qualified 
hostname. The s

ethostname

 command sets the name of the content security appliance. The new 

hostname does not take effect until you issue the 

commit

 command.

oldname.example.com> sethostname

[oldname.example.com]> mail3.example.com

oldname.example.com> 

For the hostname change to take effect, you must enter the 

commit

 command. After you have successfully 

committed the hostname change, the new name appears in the CLI prompt:

oldname.example.com> commit

Please enter some comments describing your changes:

[]> Changed System Hostname

Changes committed: Mon Jan 04 12:00:01 2010

The new hostname appears in the prompt as follows: 

mail3.example.com>

You can configure the Domain Name System (DNS) settings for your content security appliance through 
the Management Appliance > Network > DNS page in the GUI, or via the 

dnsconfig

 command. 

You can configure the following settings:

Whether to use the Internet’s DNS servers or your own, and which server(s) to use

Which interface to use for DNS traffic

The number of seconds to wait before timing out a reverse DNS lookup