Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C170 用户指南

If an appliance in a cluster is down or needs to be retired and you want to load the configuration 
from this appliance to a new appliance that you plan to add to the cluster.

If you are adding more appliances to your cluster and you want to load the configuration from one 
of the existing appliances in the cluster to the newly added appliances. 

If you want to load a backed-up configuration to a cluster.

Depending on your requirements, you can load a cluster configuration or appliance configuration from 
a valid cluster configuration file.

You cannot load the configuration of a standalone appliance on a clustered appliance.

Make sure that you have a valid and complete XML configuration. See 

Create a backup of the current configuration of the appliance to which you plan to load the 
configuration. See 

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Create a cluster setup with all the appliances that you plan to have in your setup. See 

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You can have all the appliances under one group. Ensure that the interfaces for cluster 
communication in your setup have same names and SSH and CCS settings as in the XML 
configuration.

Click System Administration > Configuration File.

Choose the cluster from the Mode drop-down menu.

Depending on whether you want to a load cluster or appliance configuration, do one of the following:

In the Load Configuration section, choose Cluster from the drop-down list.

Load the cluster configuration, and click Load. See 

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Assign groups from the loaded configuration to the appliances in the cluster, and copy appliance 
configuration from the appliances in the selected group to the respective appliances. Use the 
Group Configuration and Appliance Configuration drop-down lists. 

If you do not want to copy an appliance configuration, choose Don't Copy from the Appliance 
Configuration drop-down list.

Review the configuration. Click Review.

Click Confirm.

Click Continue.

In the Load Configuration section, choose Appliance in cluster from the drop-down list.

Load the configuration, and click Load. See 

. Note that 

you cannot load the configuration of a standalone appliance on a clustered appliance.