Before using a hard disk with Gibraltar the disk must be integrated into the system first. Basically the Gibraltar firewall works without hard disk. Some of the services need a hard disk to work properly (e.g. Proxy server). Only IDE or SATA hard disks can be used here.
WARNING: When you use a hard disk for Gibraltar, all files on this hard disk are deleted!
1. | Choose System in the main menu. |
2. | Choose the card Configure HDD. |
3. | Choose from the selection field Use hard disk the hard disk, you want to use for Gibraltar. You can identify the right hard disk by the shown size. Note, that the chosen hard disk gets formatted, and all stored files will be deleted. |
4. | Click the button Save to formate the chosen hard disk and prepare it for Gibraltar. |
5. | In the security inquiry afterwards, click the button Yes, if you are absolutely sure that by formatting the hard disk no important files get lost. Thereby the hard disk gets formatted. This can take a few minutes. |
6. | Afterwards Gibraltar has to be restarted, so that the hard disk can be embedded into the data system correctly. Before that, the configuration has to be stored. Therefore choose Configuration management from the main menu. |
7. | Choose the card Save configuration. |
8. | Choose your storage medium and click the button Save. |
9. | Choose System in the main menu. |
10. | Choose the button Restart, to reboot Gibraltar. |
11. | Click the button Yes to start the rebooting. Afterwards you loose the connection to the GibADMIN. You can login into the GibADMIN again after a few minutes, when Gibraltar finished the starting, in the usual way. |
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