3.3.2 Saving, Applying, or Canceling Configuration Changes

When you make configuration changes on a page accessed from Devices > Access Gateways > Edit and click OK on that page, the changes are saved to the browser cache. If your session expires or you close the browser session before you update Access Gateway with the changes, the changes are lost.

You can control how your changes are saved and can be applied with the update options. See Status Options.

If you have any configuration changes saved to the browser cache, use the following options to control what happens to the changes:

Option

Description

OK

Saves the configuration changes to the configuration store. This allows you to return at a later time to review or modify the changes before they are applied. If your Access Gateways are clustered and you want to update them one at a time, you need to save the configuration change. This ensures that the changes are not lost before the last cluster member is updated. When your session times out or you log out, the configuration changes are flushed from the browser cache. If this happens before the changes have been applied to some servers in the cluster, the changes cannot be applied to those servers.

Cancel

Cancels changes that are pending in the browser cache. To cancel modifications to specific services, click the Cancel link by the service. The Cancel button does not affect the changes that have been saved to the configuration store.

Revert

To cancel any saved changes, click Revert, then confirm the cancellation. The saved configuration is overwritten by the last successfully applied configuration.

If you have applied the changes to one member of the cluster, you cannot revert to the configuration you had before applying the changes. If you do not want to apply these changes to other members of the cluster, remove the server that you updated with the changes from the cluster. Then click Revert to cancel the saved changes. The members of the cluster return to the last successfully applied configuration. To apply this configuration to the removed server, add this server to the cluster.

The Revert button and the Cancel button cannot cancel the following configuration changes:

  • Identity Server Cluster: If you change the Identity Server Cluster option on the Reverse Proxy/Authentication page, then click OK, the Revert button cannot cancel this change. It is saved, and the next time you apply a configuration change, Identity Server cluster configuration is applied. To cancel the change, you need to return to the Reverse Proxy/Authentication page, set the Identity Server Cluster option to the original selection, then click OK on the Configuration page.

  • Reverse Proxy for Embedded Service Provider: If you change the Reverse Proxy option on the Reverse Proxy/Authentication page, then click OK, the Revert button cannot cancel this change. It is saved, and the next time you apply a configuration change, the Reverse Proxy option change is applied. To cancel the change, return to the Reverse Proxy/Authentication page, set the Reverse Proxy option to the original selection, then click OK on the Configuration page.

  • Port of the Reverse Proxy for the Embedded Service Provider: If you change the port of the reverse proxy that is used by the Embedded Service Provider (click Edit > [Name of Reverse Proxy]), then click OK, the Revert button cannot cancel this change. It is saved, and the next time you apply a configuration change, the port change is applied. To cancel the change, return to the Reverse Proxy page, set the port to the original value, then click OK on the Configuration page.

  • Published DNS Name of the Proxy Service for the Embedded Service Provider: If you change the Published DNS Name of the proxy service that is used by the Embedded Service Provider (click Edit > [Name of Reverse Proxy] > [Name of Proxy Service]), then click OK, the Revert button cannot cancel this change. It is saved, and the next time you apply a configuration change, the Published DNS Name is changed. To undo the change, return to the Proxy Service page, set the Published DNS Name to its original value, then click OK on the Configuration page.

  • Certificates: Certificates are pushed as soon as they are selected. If you change the server certificate for the reverse proxy (click Edit > [Name of Reverse Proxy]) or change the web server certificates (click Edit > [Name of Reverse Proxy] > [Name of Proxy Service] > Web Servers), the Revert button cannot cancel these changes. To undo the change, return to the page, select the original certificate, then click OK.

  • Renaming a Reverse Proxy: If you change the name of a reverse proxy (click Edit > Reverse Proxies / Authentication), then click OK. You cannot cancel this change. To undo the change, return to the Reverse Proxies / Authentication page, rename the reverse proxy to its original name, click OK, and update Access Gateway.