Restoring Factory Settings

You can quickly return the appliance to its original factory settings from the browser-based management tool, a Telnet session, or the command line. After restoring factory settings, you must either reinitialize the appliance as described in the Getting Started guide or use a previously created AUTOLOAD.NAS file on a floppy diskette to restore the appliance's configuration settings.

An appliance's original factory settings include the following:

• The eth0 network adapter is bound to IP address 10.1.1.1 on subnet 10.1.1.0 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0.
• Other network adapters have no addresses bound.
• No caching, proxy cache, appliance cluster, caching hierarchy, filtering, or other appliance services are configured.

WARNING:  

Restoring factory settings removes all the settings you have configured except passwords. This includes network addresses and all appliance cache services.

In most cases, you can automatically restore the settings if you have prepared an AUTOLOAD file on a floppy disk. See The AUTOLOAD.NAS File and Import/Export Tab.

You should also prepare an alternatively named backup configuration file as a precaution. For further details, see Backing Up the Appliance Configuration.

From the Browser-Based Management Tool

1. Click System > Actions > Factory Settings.

2. Restore factory settings by clicking Restore.

   or

   Cancel the action by clicking Do Not Restore.

From a Telnet Session or the Command Line

1. At the system prompt, enter

   factorysettings

2. Do one of the following:

   Restore factory settings by entering apply.

   or

   Cancel the action by entering cancel.

After restoring factory settings, you must either reinitialize the appliance as described in the Getting Started guide or use a previously created AUTOLOAD.NAS file on a floppy diskette to restore the appliance's configuration settings. See The AUTOLOAD.NAS File and Import/Export Tab.