Reimage Gateways
This section describes how to reimage a , to restore it back to the factory state. The content only applies to appliance and virtual appliance Gateways. It does not apply to the software Gateways. The most recent appliance images are available for download from the CA Support site. For a list of the image files required, see .
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This section describes how to reimage a
API Gateway
, to restore it back to the factory state. The content only applies to appliance and virtual appliance Gateways. It does not apply to the software Gateways. The most recent appliance images are available for download from the CA Support site. For a list of the image files required, see Release Notes 9.3.Contents:
When to Reimage
The following are some scenarios where reimaging will be useful or required:
- A period of time has elapsed since your organization purchased a Gateway. You will need to update its image to the latest release before putting the Gateway into use.
- Your organization purchases a Gateway for one department but finds a use for it in another department and you want to restore it to factory state before moving it.
- Your organization purchases a hardware Gateway for development but then decides a virtual appliance will suffice. You retain the Gateway for production or testing traffic, but would like to reimage it to remove any fragments from development.
- You experiment on your Gateway with system-level modifications or third-party application and now you wish to restore the appliance back to a supportable factory state or to bring it back to FIPS compliancy.
- You encounter problems during an upgrade, especially when the upgrade spans a large number of versions. It may be more expedient to simply back up your data, install the latest image on the appliance, and then restore your data.
- You need to reimage if your Gateway boot partition become corrupted.
Prerequisites
- To reimage a hardware Gateway, you must have a web interface configured to the Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) for the Gateway. For more information, see "Connecting via the Serial Management Port" in Configure the Appliance Gateway.
- To reimage a virtual appliance, VMware vSphere is required.