Most maintenance tasks can be done for both the VPN Broker and for single NGFW Engines.
Maintenance includes procedures that you do not typically need to do frequently.
You can use the Forcepoint NGFW Manager to configure the VPN Broker or to manage a single Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall (Forcepoint NGFW) Engine.
The VPN Broker creates highly-scalable, full-mesh VPN environments. VPN tunnels are automatically created between NGFW Engines when they communicate with each other. The VPN tunnels are automatically removed when they are no longer needed.
When you configure high availability for the VPN Broker, there are multiple VPN Broker gateways in the same VPN Broker domain. All VPN Broker members can connect to any VPN Broker gateway in the VPN Broker domain.
You can use the Forcepoint NGFW Manager to locally manage a single NGFW Engine.
You can upgrade a single NGFW Engine using the NGFW Manager.
We recommend that you change your password regularly.
Exporting elements allows you to reuse or restore elements for single NGFW Engine configuration without having to create them again.
Importing elements allows you to reuse or restore elements for single NGFW Engine configuration without having to create them again.
Backups contain the necessary configuration information to restore the NGFW Manager to the state it was in when the backup was taken.
Restoring backups allows you to recover from the loss of the system configurations.
In rare cases, such as when the NGFW Engine is not functioning correctly, you might need to restart the NGFW Engine.
You can turn off the NGFW Engine when moving the NGFW appliance to another location, or when doing hardware maintenance.
When instructed to do so by Forcepoint support, you can collect information about the system to assist in troubleshooting.
We recommend resetting the NGFW appliance to default settings before disposing of the appliance, or mailing the appliance to Forcepoint support or another location.