Restore

You can restore your ArcSight Management Center configuration from a previous backup. These stipulations apply to restoring:

Note: When running backup/restore on a different appliance system (with the same model, e.g: C6600), the restore process will overwrite the destination's network information and certificate. Users must reset the certificate and reconfigure the network information.

To restore the configuration:

Note: Please restart ArcMC’s web process in order to begin with the data restore. The duration of the restore process will depend on the amount of data. Status can be checked in the log file:
- Software:current/backups/restore.log
- Appliances:/opt/backups/restore.log
  1. Click Administration > Application > Restore.

  2. Under Upload Backup for Restore, click Choose File.

  3. Select your backup file.

  4. Click Upload to restore the configuration from the specified backup file.

    Caution: The version of ArcSight Management Center used to restore the backup must be the same version used to create it.

  5. On software , restart the ArcSight Management Center web process. On appliance, reboot the appliance.

  6. Optionally, re-import the SSL certificate for each container. Click the icon to run the Certificate Download wizard and import the valid certificates. In addition, if a certificate mismatch is shown for any remote node, re-import the server certificate for the node.

After restoring the configuration: