Appliance manager settings
Use this page to specify global settings for the DataPower® appliance manager. You can also use this page to shutdown the appliance manager.
To view this administrative console page, click
.- , if you want to start the wizard that is used to export your DataPower appliance manager configuration to a file. After the wizard starts, you must specify the fully qualified name of the file into which you want to export the DataPower appliance manager configuration. The Export wizard exports the specified file onto the file system of the deployment manager.
- to start the wizard that is used to import a previously exported copy of your DataPower appliance manager configuration from a file. After the wizard starts, you must select either or . Then specify the fully qualified file path of the file from which you want to import your DataPower appliance manager configuration. If you do not know the fully qualified name of the file, you can use the browse function to locate the file.
- if you want to shutdown the appliance manager.
Maximum versions stored
Specifies the maximum number of domain and settings versions that can be stored in the DataPower appliance manager. For example, if you specify a value of 3, for each managed set, you can have 3 sharable settings versions, and 3 versions of each managed domain.
You can view the shareable appliance settings version history, or the domain versions history to determine which versions are available for specific managed sets.
To view the sharable settings version history for a managed set, click
To view the version history for a managed domain for a managed set, click
.Versions directory
Specifies the directory into which you want the versions stored. Whenever the DataPower appliance manager detects a change in the sharable appliance settings, or a managed domain on the master appliance for a managed set, a new sharable appliance settings, or managed domain version is automatically created.
Status
Specifies whether the appliance manager is started or stopped. Click
to stop the appliance manager.DataPower appliance manager automatically starts when the deployment manager starts if there are appliances for the appliance manager to control. The appliance manager also automatically starts when requests are sent to the appliance manager.
If the status is stopped, the DataPower appliance manager automatically restarts the next time that you send a request to the appliance manager.