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Chapter 4: Managing Your Appliance 57

you ever need to replace your AutoView 1000R/2000R, restore the configuration

file to the new appliance and avoid manually configuring it.

NOTE: User account information is stored in the user database, not in the conﬁ guration ﬁ le.

For more information, see Managing User Databases in this chapter.

To read and save a conﬁ guration to a ﬁ le from an appliance:

1. Click the Tools tab in the AMP. The Tools dialog box appears.

2. Click the Save Appliance Conﬁ guration button. The Save Appliance

Conﬁ guration dialog box appears.

3. Click Browse and navigate to a location to save the Conﬁ guration ﬁ le. The

location appears in the Save To ﬁ eld.

4. Click Save. The conﬁ guration ﬁ le is read from the appliance and saved to

the desired location. A progress window displays.

5. When complete, a message appears prompting you to conﬁ rm the read

completion. Click OK to return to the main window.

To restore a conﬁ guration ﬁ le to an appliance:

1. Click the Tools tab in the AMP. The Tools dialog box appears.

2. Click the Restore Appliance Conﬁ guration button. The Restore Appliance

Conﬁ guration File dialog box appears.

3. Click Browse and navigate to the location where you stored the saved

conﬁ guration ﬁ le. The ﬁ le name and location appears in the File name ﬁ eld.

4. Click Restore. The conﬁ guration ﬁ le is written to the appliance. A progress

window displays.

5. When complete, a message appears prompting you to conﬁ rm the write

completion. Click OK to return to the main window.

Managing User Databases

An on-board user database contains all the user accounts and access rights

assigned in an appliance. You can save this database to a client-based file and

use it to configure users on other appliances by restoring the user account file

to the new appliance.

NOTE: The user account ﬁ le is encrypted and you will be prompted to create a password when

you save the ﬁ le. You will need to enter this password when you write the ﬁ le to a new unit.

To save a user database from an appliance:

1. Click the Tools tab in the AMP. The Tools dialog box appears.

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