IBM Proventia

 

IBM Proventia G Series

Nipper uses the /etc directory from these devices as the source. To do this using SSH and SCP you could do the following:

  1. Logon to the device using SSH. If you are using the admin user and the address of your system is 192.168.0.254 then you could enter the following command:

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    ssh -l admin 192.168.0.254

  2. Create an archive of your /etc directory using tar as this will make it easier to transfer to your machine. You could do this using the following command:

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    tar -cvf etc-config-backup.tar /etc

  3. You can now transfer the archive to your local system. If your local system supports SCP and your username is bob and address is 192.168.0.100, then you could use the following command:

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    scp etc-config-backup.tar bob@192.168.0.100

  4. Once the configuration archive is on your local system you can extract it. There are several tools on Windows (such as 7-zip) that are capable of extracting a tar archive.

Once you have the configuration on your local system you can then use the etc directory that you transferred from the Proventia device as the configuration directory source for Nipper.

 

IBM Proventia M Series

For IBM Proventia M series devices you can use the standard backup option from the administrative web interface. You can find this option under the System Maintenance section of the web-based administration interface. You can select to backup the configuration and then download the configuration backup to your local system.

The backup made by the Proventia device is a standard tar file, so you could rename the file with a .tar file extension. You will need to extract the backup before using it as the source for Nipper. On UNIX type systems tar is usually installed by default, on Windows systems there are several archive tools that support tar (such as 7-zip). Once you have extracted the configuration files from the backup you can select the configuration using the Add Directory option in the New Report wizard, and then selecting the directory where the configuration files were extracted.