User manual BARRACUDA F900 INSTALLATION REV 1.3

[. . . ] Read all instructions before attempting to unpack, install or operate this equipment, especially before connecting the power adapter. Electrical Safety Basic electrical safety precautions should be followed to protect yourself from harm and the appliance from damage: · Be aware of the power switch locations on the appliance's chassis as well as the emergency power-off switch for the housing room, the disconnection switch or the electrical outlet. Knowing these locations enables you to quickly remove electrical power from the system in case an electrical accident occurs. When working around exposed electrical circuits, another person who is familiar with the power-off controls should be nearby to switch off the power if necessary. This is to avoid making a complete circuit, which will cause electrical shock. [. . . ] · Get hardware info Displays all available information stored in a hidden partition on the appliance such as serial number, initial installation date, etc. Note that not the whole existing RAM can be tested as ART OS occupies some RAM by itself. · System recovery Effectively invokes a reinstall of the appliance. For hard disk based appliances, an installation "*. iso" image as well as a backup PAR file are stored within a dedicated partition on the hard drive and will be used. Optionally, an *. iso image on an USB thumb drive connected to the appliance may be used. If no PAR file is available, the default installation for the corresponding appliance type is chosen. See also Performing a Recovery Process, page 15. For flash-only appliances, this option always requires an USB thumb drive connected to the system. The system will be recovered either to the release version of Barracuda NG Firewall it was first installed in, losing the updates installed since then, or to the state stored in a PAR file residing within the art partition of the system drive. Once your appliance is readily configured, you may save the configuration for ART recovery through Box > Active Recovery > Save Current Config. This will generate an ISO file within the art partition that will be used during the next recovery process. ART system recovery only works if the appliance was installed with Barracuda NG Firewall 5. 0. It is not possible to use ART system recovery on systems that were updated from 4. 0 or 4. 2. See Using ART Recovery without USB Stick, page 15, in order to learn about the ART recovery process. · Configuration reset Allows the definition of a new host name, management IP address, default route and optionally a network driver. This functionality comes in handy if connectivity to an appliance was lost due to some misconfiguration or activation of an erroneous PAR file. · Start shell Enables access to a bash shell within which you may perform certain commands included with ART. Currently the only possible reason the ART recovery OS is invoked automatically for is a hard disk drive flagged as "dirty". This may indicate a hardware failure or a corrupt file system on the hard disk. The latter might be remedied by an administrator through the shell via a remote login. 14 Appliance Installation Guide ART and Central Management Appliances that are centrally managed using a Barracuda NG Control Center will obviously no longer be normally centrally manageable once the recovery system is up and running. However, ART is aware of the appliance being centrally managed and therefore invokes a connection back to the Control Center, indicting its presence. An administrator can then login remotely to the appliance using SSH, invoking the ART menu or a command line in order to debug the problem or perform a recovery process. Performing a Recovery Process See the Barracuda NG Firewall Administrator's Guide in order to learn about creating Portable Archive (PAR) files. Using a PAR file on an USB Stick · · Be sure that the appliance is powered off. Then, insert the USB stick into one of the USB connectors of the appliance and switch the appliance on. Depending on the appliance type, it may take a few minutes until the recovery process will start. During the recovery process, the status LED of the appliance will flash with varying speeds. If your appliance is equipped with an LCD display, then the process information will be displayed there. [. . . ] A Control Center managed box running in ART mode cannot be managed through the CC, although it will build a connection to the CC signalling its presence. See Installation and Recovery Using ART, page 13 in order to get in-depth information about Active Recovery Technology. 22 Appliance Installation Guide F900 Rack Mount Installation Verify that the kit is complete, as shown here. It should contain all the parts as listed in the table below: Table 7 Hardware Quantity 4 2 8 4 20 8 Component Inner-slide assemblies, 2 of which attached to slide kit and 2 loose inside the kit's box Preassembled slide rail kits with L-brackets already riveted to the slide rails Washers (see figure below) Type A screws (see figure below) Type B screws (see figure below) Type C screws (see figure below) Fig. 3 Part List: One Washer Type and Three Screw Types 1. ) Start out by disassembling the rail construction. [. . . ]