Shutting down the appliance
You can power down an appliance from the web client or directly from the appliance itself.
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Caution: Rebooting the appliance causes a service outage for any current users. |
To shut down an appliance
You can shut down your appliance from the web client via Appliance > Power. For more information, see Power.
Appliance: Shut down from the appliance
You can use the Red X button on the front panel of the appliance to shut it down. Press and hold the Red X button for four seconds until it displays POWER OFF.
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Caution: Once the Safeguard appliance is booted, DO NOT press and hold the Red X button for more than 13 seconds. This will hard power off the appliance and may result in damage. |
Restarting the appliance
You can restart an appliance from the web client or directly from the appliance itself.
To restart an appliance
You can restart your appliance from the web client via Appliance > Power. For more information, see Power.
Appliance: Restart from the appliance
After the appliance powers off, you will need physical access to start it. Press the Green check mark button on the front panel of the appliance for NO MORE than one second to power on the appliance.
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CAUTION: Once the Safeguard appliance is booted, DO NOT press and hold the Green check mark button. Holding this button for four or more seconds will cold reset the power of the appliance and may result in damage. |
Setting the appliance name and Host DNS Suffix
SPP automatically assigns a name to the appliance; however, you can change the name from the Appliance Information page. In the web client, you can also edit the Host DNS Suffix that was set during the initial setup of SPP.
To edit the appliance name and host DNS suffix
- Go to the page:
- web client: Navigate to Appliance > Appliance Information.
- To the right of the Appliance Name and Host DNS Suffix, click Edit to enable both fields for editing.
- Make any changes required to the Appliance Name or Host DNS Suffix.
- Click Save.
Debug
For each SPP internal service, you can specify the level of logging and the external syslog server for storing debug logs. This allows for debugging in real time.
Debug logging is appliance specific. The data sent to the syslog server can include but is not limited to Support Bundle debug data. Cluster wide TLS audit event can be logged to a syslog server (see Syslog Events).
Debug logging is off by default but you can turn it on or off. Because debug logs can be sizable, you may want to turn it on for debugging a specific scenario or testing and turn it off for daily operations.
Using the API to control TLS log connection messages
Using the API, you can control if TLS log connection messages are generated to the debug logs when the TLS connection to an external server is closed. If the log level is set (see below), the event is also sent to the syslog server.
To log TLS connection information, set the NetworkDebugEnabled property from the https://<network address>/service/appliance/v4/Service/Debug endpoint to true. For more information, see Using the API.
To configure debug logs to send to a syslog server
- You will need a configured syslog server. If you have not configured a syslog server, you will see a message like this: To configure additional debut logging options, you need to configure a syslog server. Click Configure a syslog server. For more information, see Configuring and verifying a syslog server.
- If you have a syslog server configured, navigate to Appliance > Debug.
- Select a Syslog Server to which you want to send debug logs. The default is Do not log to syslog.
- In Facility, select which syslog facility to which you want to use: Kernel, User, Mail, Daemons, Authorization, or Syslog.
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Set the log level.
- To set all log levels, click Set All then choose to Set All at one of the levels. This is useful to set the most common level of logging you want for most services.
- To set an individual Service Name's log level, select next to the service to change the log level for that service.
When you select from either the set all levels or the individual service name level, the log includes the log level selected as well as those listed below the level you selected. The information is immediately sent to the server. For example:
- Debug (includes Debug, Information, Warning, and Error)
- Information (includes Information, Warning, and Error)
- Warning (includes Warning and Error)
- Error (includes only Error)
- None (Disabled): No logs are sent
- The grid displays each Service Name (enum name) that supports debug logging and the current Log Level.
- Click Refresh at any time to display the latest information.
- Click Search to locate a specific service.