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To add the activation keys, follow the steps below.

1 In the Management Console Tools menu, select License Manager .

The License Summary window appears.

2 Click Add Keys . The Add Activation Key window appears. Enter the

activation key and click Add for each activation key that you want to add.

3 When you have ﬁnished adding activation keys, click Close to close the

Add Activation Key window.

4 Click Close to close the License Summary window. All EFW system

functionality is now available.

For more information on license-activation keys, refer to the section "Licensing

Overview" in the 3Com Embedded Firewall Administration Guide.

Creating and retaining a recovery diskette

Communication is encrypted between EFW devices and the Policy Server,

between the Management Console and the Policy Server, and between Policy

Servers. Policy Servers identify themselves to each other, to the Management

Console, and to their EFW devices (NICs) using two public/private key pairs

generated upon creation of a new EFW domain.

After installing your ﬁrst policy server in an EFW domain, it is critical to make a

copy of the ﬁles named public.key and server.keystore from your installation.

Save this data indeﬁnitely in a safe, secure location.

In the unlikely event of a disaster, such as a disk crash on all of your policy

server machines and a simultaneous loss of all disk backups for these

machines, this recovery diskette allows you to "clone" your policy server and

regain management control of your NICs. A clean installation of the policy

server cannot communicate with your EFW NICs (which is the intended design,

for security reasons).

If you do not create a recovery diskette and you lose all policy server

installation data, you will not be able to recover your NICs. They

continue to enforce the fallback mode speciﬁed in their last EFW policy,

indeﬁnitely. These NICs must be replaced in order to obtain a different policy.

To create a recovery diskette, follow the steps below.

1 Insert a formatted 3.5" diskette into the a: drive of the computer hosting

the Policy Server.

2 Save the public.key and server.keystore ﬁles to diskette. (These ﬁles are

located in Program Files -> 3Com Corporation -> 3Com EFW.)

Creating and retaining a recovery diskette