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Working with Services

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You can manually start and stop appliance services.

To view all appliance services and their statuses, login to the CLI Manager, navigate to Administration > Services.

Use caution before stopping or restarting a particular service. Make sure that no important actions are being performed by other users using the service that must be stopped or restarted.

Some services, such as, LDAP Proxy auth, member source services, and so on, are available after they have been successfully configured on ESA.

Setting Date and Time

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You can adjust the date and time settings of ESA by navigating to Administration > Date and Time. You may need to do so if this information was entered incorrectly during initialization.

You can synchronize time with NTP Server using the Time Server (NTP) option (explained in the following paragraph), change time zone using the Set Time Zone option, change date using the Set Date option, or change time using the Set Time option. The information selected during installation is available beside each option.

Managing Accounts and Passwords

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The ESA CLI Manager includes options to change password and permissions for multiple users through the CLI interface. The options available are listed as follows:

Change My Password
Manage Password and Local-Accounts
- Reset directory user-password
- Change OS root account password
- Change OS local_admin account password
- Change OS local_admin account permissions
- Manage internal Service-Accounts
- Manage local OS users

OS Users in Appliances

When you install an appliance, some users are installed to run specific services for the products.

Working with Backup and Restore

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Using the Backup/Restore Center tool, you can create backups of configuration files and settings. Use the backups to restore a stable configuration if changes have caused problems. Before the Backup Center dialog box appears you will be prompted to enter the root password. You can select from a list of packages to be backed up.

When you import files or configurations, ensure that each component is selected individually.

Setting Up the Email Server

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You can set up an email server that supports the notification features in Protegrity Reports. The Protegrity Appliance Email Setup tool guides you through the setup.

Keep the following information available before the setup process:

SMTP server details.
SMTP user credentials.
Contact email account: This email address is used by the Appliance to send user notifications.

Remember to save the email settings before you exit the Email Setup tool.

To set up the Email Server:

Rebooting and Shutting down

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You can reboot or shut down your appliance if necessary using Administration > Reboot and Shutdown. Make sure the Data Security Platform users are aware that the system is being rebooted or turned off and no important tasks are being performed at this time.

Cloud platforms and power off

For cloud platforms, it is recommended to shut down or power off the CLI Manager or Appliance Web UI. With cloud platforms, such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, the instances run the appliance.

Accessing the OS Console

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You can access OS console using Administration > OS Control. You require root user credentials to access the OS console.

If you have System Monitor settings enabled in the Preferences menu, then the OS console will display the System Monitor screen upon entering the OS console.

To enable the System Monitor setting:

Login to the ESA CLI Manager.
Navigate to Preferences.
Enter the root password and select OK.

The Preferences screen appears.