Ensure that the template is available before starting this procedure. To upload a user defined template use System Administration - File Upload object.

To create a configuration and fill the tokens generated for data files to create configuration:

  1. On the SBC main screen, go to Administration > System Administration > Configuration Template Import (EMA). The Configuration Template Import (EMA) window is displayed.
    Figure 1: Configuration Window


  2. Click Create Configuration from Template on the Configurations Created from Templates panel.

  3. The Create Configurations from Template window appears.

  4. Select the desired template file from the list, which needs to be uploaded to SBC and click Next (Next button is activated only after selecting a template).

  5. Once the template file is selected, the Import Template window appears with the details of all the parameters mentioned in the Template file.
    The parameters mentioned in the Template file depends on the template you have selected. For the above example, a user defined template is used. The fields are not populated for the default templates.

  6. Enter the parameter values and file name.

  7. You can either save the configuration for future implementation or save and install the configuration immediately. Use the following buttons to perform the tasks.
    Once the configuration is saved, the newly added configuration is displayed in the list of saved templates.

View Template

You can view the complete template information in CLI format using View Template option. Once all the required information is filled in the template, click View Template. A pop up window appears with complete template information in the CLI format. For example:

Figure 2: View Template


View Configuration

Click View Configuration to view the template information. A pop up window appears with the template information. For example:

Table 3: View Configuration

Save Token Values

Click Save Token Value to File to save all the available tokens from the template on SBC. Enter a file name and click Save. Token file can be viewed in System Administration - File Upload object.

Load Token Values

Click Load Tokens Values to import any saved tokens to be added to the template. Select a token from the drop-down list load the token file from SBC.

Limitations

The Configuration Import tool do have some limitations:

  • If you load a CLI script onto the SBC and if it encounters an error, the line number where the error is reported is not always accurate.
  • If you load a CLI script onto the SBC and if it encounters an error, the part of the script up to the error would have been loaded but the part including and after the error would not be loaded. It is sometimes necessary to undo the configuration that has already been loaded, so that it can be reloaded once the error is corrected. There is no easy way to do this: you either need to delete the objects one by one, or restore the SBC configuration from a backup. For this reason, it's strongly recommended that you backup the current configuration before using the Template Import tool.
  • The tool has no validation on field input, so, for example, it is possible to use too many characters for an object name, or put in a value that is out of range. These errors would not get caught until the script is loaded onto the SBC.
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