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Appliance quick start
Help | IQ-Series Appliance | Version 1.7.x
Before you begin the appliance quick start setup instructions, you should consider the following issues:
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Determine appliance rack location.
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A progress message and status indicator displayed on the Status > General page disappear when the update is complete. This message appears only for the initial update.
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Initial Websense blueSKY settings
Perform the following steps in the Websense blueSKY portal:
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Ensure that your Websense blueSKY account is established.
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Click Network Devices in the Websense blueSKY console to display a list of your network appliances.
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Click Add and enter new appliance information. See the Getting Started Guide for detailed information.
Important 
See the Getting Started Guide for detailed instructions.
You should also install a Websense Root Certificate to implement SSL decryption. See the Defining Web Policies topic in Websense blueSKY Security Gateway Help.
Appliance setup and configuration
Perform the following steps to set up and configure your appliance:
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Appliance network connection
Connect the appliance to your network. The sample diagram shows a possible deployment:
If your network includes a firewall, you need to ensure that destination TCP ports are open for connection to the cloud service. By default, the appliance is configured to use standard destination ports 80 and 443 for these connections.
Alternatively, and depending on your corporate firewall policy, you can configure your appliance to use the following ports, which are used for non-appliance connections to the cloud service:
Configuration and policy update information retrieval from Websense blueSKY. This port must be open for an IQ-Series appliance to retrieve periodic configuration setting and policy updates from the cloud service.
Notification page components. The default notification pages refer to style sheets and images served from the Websense blueSKY platform. For these pages to appear correctly, this Web site is accessed directly (i.e., not through Websense blueSKY).
Service administration. The Websense administration portal is similarly unproxied. Otherwise, it would be possible for you to accidentally block access and then be unable to rectify the situation.
You can switch between the standard and alternative ports at any time using the appliance command-line interface (CLI). See the Getting Started Guide for detailed instructions about switching port settings.
You should also open the outbound Network Time Protocol (NTP) port (UDP 123) to allow system time/clock synchronization in the system.
Appliance registration
Perform the following steps to register the appliance with Websense blueSKY:
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In the Websense blueSKY console, click Network Devices.
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Appliance registration completion and password change
Perform the following steps to complete appliance registration:
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Paste the Websense blueSKY registration key into the Registration key field.
At this point, an update to the pre-installed Web category database begins. During this update, the appliance can analyze traffic using the pre-installed database. Note that analysis may be more accurate after the update process completes. A download progress message and status indicator displayed on the Status > General page disappear when the update is complete.

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