HP VPN Firewall Appliances System Management and Maintenance Command Reference

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Configuration file management commands
The device supports the FIPS mode that complies with NIST FIPS 140-2 requirements. Support for features,
commands, and parameters might differ in FIPS mode and non-FIPS mode. For more information about
FIPS mode, see Access Control Configuration Guide.
The following matrix shows the storage media supported on different firewalls and firewall modules:
Hardware Stora
g
e medium
F1000-A-EI/F1000-S-EI flash0
F1000-E cfa0
F5000 cfa0
F5000-S/F5000-C cfa0
VPN firewall modules cfa0
20-Gbps VPN firewall modules cfa0
All examples in this chapter use the storage medium cfa0.
archive configuration
Use archive configuration to manually archive the running configuration to the configuration archive
directory.
Syntax
archive configuration
Views
User view
Default command level
3: Manage level
Usage guidelines
Before manually archiving the running configuration, complete the following tasks:
1. Create a directory for saving configuration archives.
2. Use the archive configuration location command to specify the directory as the configuration
archive directory and specify an archive name prefix.
Configuration archive is a function that facilitates configuration rollback. It provides the manual and
automatic methods for saving the running configuration as checkpoint references. For more information
about the archiving mechanism, see the section about configuration rollback in Getting Started Guide.
To ensure system performance, follow these guidelines:
• If the device configuration does not change frequently, manually archive the running configuration
as needed.