Replicate appliance configuration.

[maxutz]

  I Have a installation of Web GAteway with 20 appliances. There's a way to make a a configuration in one of them and them replicate this configuration to the others? Or I'll have to configurate the 20 appliances one by one?

[aloksard]

Hi,

Hope you are doing well.

Central Management is used to synchronize the configuration (policy) between two or more McAfee Web Gateway appliances. This is useful as it solves the problem of making duplicate changes on each appliance. Everything under the “policy” tab, along with the admin accounts, is synced automatically when creating the cluster. Each time a change is made and “Save Changes” is invoked the change will be propagated to all cluster members automatically. This allows the administrator to ensure that filtering policy is the same no matter which appliance is handling a given request. Settings under the Configuration tab are unique for each cluster node. This allows the administrator to assign separate networking configuration (IPs, routes, etc.) on each appliance.

Settings under Configuration tab will be unique and needs to be configured individually.

https://community.mcafee.com/t5/Documents/Web-Gateway-Understanding-Central-Management-Clustering/ta...

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[fw_mon]

Hello,

if you want to replicate the system configuration during the install of new MWGs then you can use a utility written by @eelsasser : https://community.mcafee.com/t5/Documents/MWG7-Appliance-Setup/ta-p/548335

Be aware that this is not supported by McAfee Support in any way.

If you want to replicate some configuration from one machine to existing cluster of 20 instances then you have to use other methods, like using REST API or a "force" method (which is a easy way to break your cluster).

[aloksard]

Hi,

You can the static routes added via REST API as well.

We have created a POC bash shell script which illustrates how to check or change the MWG's Static Route configuration via REST API -- please find the script in below link:-

https://community.mcafee.com/t5/Web-Gateway/multiple-static-routes/m-p/625569#M19573

You can refer below link for more info on REST API:-

https://kc.mcafee.com/resources/sites/MCAFEE/content/live/PRODUCT_DOCUMENTATION/28000/PD28279/en_US/...​

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Regards

Alok Sarda