The appliance can act as a proxy server in your network when configured as a Dataplane On-Premises Appliance. The appliance processes requests from client machines and sends the event logs to the Netskope cloud.
Configuring the appliance as a Dataplane On-Premises Appliance involves the following steps:
You must first set the license key and point the device to the Netskope cloud. Follow these steps:
- Connect to the appliance console.
- Log into the console using the credentials
nsadmin/nsappliance. Your prompt will change to the Netskope shell prompt,nsappliance.Note
You can change your password by using the command,
auth change-password nsadmin. - At the
nsappliance>prompt, enterconfigureto go to configuration mode. - Get your license key from your Netskope tenant UI (Settings > Security Cloud Platform > On-Premises Infrastructure), and then enter this command to set the license key:
set system licensekey <licensekey>
- Enter
saveto save the configuration.
The appliance can be setup as a forward proxy server to receive client requests to web sites. The proxy server then generates trusted certificates for those web sites, serving them up to the requesting clients to establish a trusted path.