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UICK TART UIDE Cisco C170 Email Security Appliance Welcome Before You Begin Document Network Settings Plan the Installation Install the Appliance in a Rack Plug In the Appliance Temporarily Change Your IP Address Connect to the Appliance Power Up the Appliance...
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Thank you for choosing the Cisco C170 Email Security Appliance (Cisco C170). The Cisco C170 appliance is designed to serve as your SMTP email gateway at your network perimeter—that is, the first appliance with an IP address that is directly accessible to the Internet for sending and receiving email.
Before You Begin Before you begin the installation, make sure that you have the items needed. The following items are included with the Cisco C170 Email Security Appliance: • Quick Start Guide (this guide) • Rails and adaptor kit • Power cable(s) •...
Plan the Installation To defend your email system against spam, viruses, phishing, and other threats, the Cisco C170 appliance must be installed at the perimeter of your network. It needs to be the first appliance with an IP address that can access the Internet.
Install the Appliance in a Rack Install the Cisco C170 Email Security Appliance using either the slide rails or fixed rack mount brackets. For information about these installation options, see the Cisco 170 Series Hardware Installation Guide. Appliance Placement in a Rack •...
Plug In the Appliance Plug the female end of the power cable into the power supply on the back panel of the appliance. Plug the male end into an electrical outlet. 7JZ78-004E CONSOLE Plug the C170 power cable into an electrical outlet.
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Temporarily Change Your IP Address To connect to the Cisco C170 appliance, you must temporarily change the IP address of your computer. Make a note of your current IP configuration settings Note because you will need to revert to these settings after you finish the configuration.
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For Mac Launch the Apple menu and choose System Preferences. Step 1 Click Network. Step 2 Select the network configuration with the green icon. Step 3 This is your active connection. Then click Advanced. Click the TCP/IP tab and from Ethernet settings, Step 4 choose Manually from the drop-down list.
Connect to the Appliance The Cisco C170 appliance has two gigabit network ports: P1 and P2. At least one static IP address is required to send and receive email. You can receive and deliver email from a single connection to either network port if your network topology dictates it.
Cisco C170 Email Security Appliance Wait five minutes. Log In to the Appliance You can log in to the Cisco C170 appliance using one of two interfaces: the web-based interface or the command-line interface.
Web-Based Interface For web browser access via the Ethernet port (see the Step 1 “Connect to the Appliance” section on page 10), go to the appliance’s management interface by entering the following URL in a web browser: http://192.168.42.42 Enter the following login information: Step 2 •...
Step 7 and the new password that you set in the System Setup Wizard. The Cisco C170 Email Security Appliance uses a self-signed certificate that may trigger a warning from your web browser. You can simply accept the certificate and ignore this warning.
Run the Active Directory Wizard (Optional) After running the System Setup Wizard in the web interface, the Active Directory Wizard appears. If you are running an Active Directory server on your network, use the Active Directory Wizard to configure an LDAP server profile for the Active Directory server.
If you do not open port 80 and port 443, you cannot Note download feature keys. For more information, see the appendix “Firewall Information” in the Cisco AsyncOS for Email Security Configuration Guide. Warning You must shut down your appliance from the System Administration > Shutdown/Reboot page to prevent corruption of your queue and configuration files.
You can also configure it to relay outbound email during system setup. For instructions on configuring outbound email, see the Cisco AsyncOS for Email Configuration Guide. Remember to change your computer IP Computer Address address back to the original settings that you noted in the “Temporarily...
You’re Done! Congratulations. You are now ready to start using your Cisco C170 Email Security Appliance. You may wish to consider taking some of the following steps to get more out of the appliance. Message Tracking You can view details about message delivery and blocking by running queries using the Message Tracking service (in the GUI).
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