Extracting Config Files from IBM Proventia M Series Devices

For IBM Proventia M series devices you can use the standard backup option from the administrative web interface. You can find this option under the System Maintenance section of the web-based administration interface. You can select to backup the configuration and then download the configuration backup to your local system.

The backup made by the Proventia device is a standard tar file, so you could rename the file with a .tar file extension. You will need to extract the backup before using it as the source for Nipper Studio. On UNIX type systems tar is usually installed by default, on Windows systems there are several archive tools that support tar (such as 7-zip). Once you have extracted the configuration files from the backup you can select the configuration using the "Add Directory" option in the "New Report" wizard, and then selecting the directory where the configuration files were extracted.