This section explains how to prepare to use the function for automatically configuring and operating network devices.
Information
Automatic configuration and operation of firewalls and server load balancers is not possible if they are not registered in a network pool.
The following operations are necessary to automatically configure and operate network devices using user customization mode.
Creating Model Definitions for Network Devices
For supported models, it is not necessary to create model definitions for the network devices.
Create network device automatic configuration and operation definition files
Creating a Folder for Registering Rulesets
Create rulesets for automatic configuration and operations
The virtual IP address which is set automatically in firewall rules or server load balancer rules is the virtual IP address configured for use as the IP address for the public LAN.
For details on virtual IP addresses, refer to "9.1.3.1 Information Necessary for Designing a Public LAN".
Ruleset is the generic name for scripts and required files for scripts which are prepared for the device name or model name to automatically configure and operate network devices.
This product provides samples of scripts and required files.
For details on preparation, refer to "Appendix F Preparing for Automatic Configuration and Operation of Network Devices".
For details on sample scripts and how to prepare when using sample scripts, refer to "Appendix G Sample Script for Automatic Configuration and Operation of Network Devices".
The following operations are necessary to automatically configure and operate network devices using simple configuration mode.
Creating interface configuration files
Registering Server Certificates and CA Certificates
This operation is necessary when using the SSL accelerator of the server load balancer function.
Registering Error Page Files
This operation is necessary when performing load balancing of HTTPS communication using HTTP communication or the SSL accelerator of the server load balancer function.
For details, refer to "2.2.2 Preparations for NS Appliance" in the "NS Option Instruction".
Address set resources of global IP addresses
When managing the virtual IP addresses (public addresses) used for address translation functions of firewalls, and allocating them automatically, create the address set resources of global IP addresses.
For details, refer to "14.6 Address Set Resources" in the "User's Guide for Infrastructure Administrators (Resource Management) CE".
For details on pre-configuration, refer to "Appendix I Auto-configuration and Operations of Network Devices Using Simple Configuration Mode".
