Chapter 3. Connecting And Configuring The Siteprotector Sp3001 Appliance; Chapter 3, "Connecting And Configuring The Siteprotector Sp3001 Appliance; Siteprotector Sp3001 Appliance Configuration Checklist - IBM SP3001 Hardware Configuration Manual

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Chapter 3. Connecting and configuring the SiteProtector

SP3001 appliance

The first step is to connect the SiteProtector SP3001 appliance hardware to the network so that you can

begin managing the SiteProtector SP3001 appliance. This chapter provides procedures for configuring the

SiteProtector SP3001 appliance to communicate with the network and for starting the SiteProtector

Console.

Attention: IBM Security does not support customized configurations on the appliance. Therefore, do not

install, reinstall, or remove applications on the appliance.

Adding your IBM Security SiteProtector appliance into a domain can cause unintended consequences

depending on domain group policies.

Example:

v Hardened security policies can render the appliance unusable.

v Group policies forcing Windows Automatic Updates can place the appliance in an unsupported state.

To return the appliance to a supported state, you must restore the appliance to its factory image or

default settings, which erases all data, including events, from the database. For more information, see

"Restoring factory defaults" on page 25.

Note: In prior SiteProtector appliance models (SP1001 and SP2001), management of the appliance was

handled using the Console to configure various appliance settings. Beginning with the SP3001 model,

many of the SiteProtector SP3001 appliance settings are managed with standard operating system tools

that you can access using a Remote Desktop session on the appliance.

Note: You can use the IBM Security SiteProtector System SP3001 Quick Start Guide instead of the

procedures in this chapter if you are an experienced network administrator, and you anticipate that your

configuration will be straightforward. The IBM Security SiteProtector System SP3001 Quick Start Guide

provides minimal guidance.

Topics

"The SiteProtector SP3001 appliance front panel" on page 12

"The SiteProtector SP3001 appliance back panel" on page 13

"Connecting the SiteProtector SP3001 appliance" on page 13

"Configuring the SiteProtector SP3001 appliance to communicate with the network" on page 14

"Installing and starting the SiteProtector Console" on page 15

SiteProtector SP3001 appliance configuration checklist

The process of configuring the SiteProtector SP3001 appliance hardware requires that you perform tasks

in a certain order. Follow the steps in this topic when you configure the SiteProtector SP3001 appliance.

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