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Latest Unimus Installation with Free MS SQL DB and New Features Introduction
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Jun 6, 2025
After more than 2 years since I introduced Unimus, the latest Unimus 2.6.3 has been released. Web GUI is not change much but there are quite a few new features developped and worth introudcing this network automation, configuration management, change management tool again. In this video, I am using a distributed deployment topolocy and show how Unimus installed on a free Azure MS SQL db, and present a usful new CLI feature. Related Post: ✍https://blog.51sec.org/2022/09/unimus-network-automation-and.html Related Videos: 🌟https://youtu.be/7eMDvVQkS-U 🌟https://youtu.be/4bFziNv_IC0 🌟https://youtu.be/my5uX99iCB4 💖Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 1:35 - Lets start it 3:26 - 1. Create Free MS SQL DB for Unimus Deployment 6:49 - 2. Install Unimus Server 14:10 - 3. New CLI Feature 17:36 - Outra
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[Music]
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hello everyone welcome back to my
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channel
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Nasac in this video I'm going to show
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you this network automation
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configuration backup and change
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management software which I already
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introduced two years ago in my channel
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as you can see I had a video two years
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ago to show you how to download install
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it in five minutes also do the basic
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configuration i was using my home lab to
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demonstrating how to do that a couple of
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devices running a flat network there's
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no extra distribution deployment
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introduced after two years there's quite
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a few features has been
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developed you also can find it from the
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website
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unimus.net/features.html network
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automation disaster recovery change
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manage configuration auditing
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distributed and
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multi-enant it seems improved a lot
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since two years ago that's why I'm
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starting to make another video to show
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you those advanced features which I
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think is still helpful especially I
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would like to show you that distributed
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installation this is the topology I'm
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going to use so now let's jump into
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it in last two years the version has
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upgraded from 2.1 until 2.6 right now
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2.6.3 actually is the current version i
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do notice quite a few new features such
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as uh new device CLI feature new custom
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backup flow and the configuration search
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export and the send
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functionality LDAP
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authentication new object access policy
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and also interesting part compliance
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reporting feature is coming so those
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nice features I've going to kind of
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integrate it into this video to
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introduce to you while I show you how we
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can deploy Unimus server and with the
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remote core deployment as I show you
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here previously when I installed Unimus
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in two years ago I was using local
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deployment now I'm going to use Unimus
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server with a remote MSSQL database to
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do this deployment later I will add
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remote unimus core into the lab and show
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you how that going to work also in
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calendar lab I'm going to integrate with
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my Windows domain controller to
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demonstrate configuration backup
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restoration part i'm going to using
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different devices from Palato Cisco for
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the gate to show you that it's going to
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be two videos this is the first one i'm
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going to show you how we can install it
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using the MSSQL DB and get it working
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this gonna make the whole lab more like
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a real production environment when
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you're really deploying it
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since we decided to using MSSQL database
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for our deployment unimas server I'm
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going to use
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Microsoft Azure SQL Server free offer as
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demo so I'm going to show you how to get
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the MSSQL server for free and you can
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use it at least we got the 32 gig by
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storage and the first 100,000 vehicle
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seconds is free for the demo purpose on
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small lab environment that's more than
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enough so we're going to use that
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assuming you already have a zu account
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so if you don't have you can watch my
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other videos to get the free au
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subscription to use after you logged
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into your Microsoft Azure account you
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can search SQL servers and then you can
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create a pseudo server or SQL database
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for me I already have SQL server created
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before i just need to create a SQL
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database to get the free SQL database as
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you can see here you need to apply this
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offer once you apply this offer then you
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can choose a resource group if you have
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one if you don't have one you can create
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one i already have one and using my
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existing resource group
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here enter database name and using
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unimus as a database name general
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purpose so you can keep a default
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settings here after you enter the
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database name resource group name here
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then
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networking so make sure you add the
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current client IP address in so let's
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make sure your current IP can access
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this database at the database firewall
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part make sure you select that next
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security keep the default setting here
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you don't need to change anything same
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thing on here if you want to put some
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text you can put text here other than
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that you just need to create it
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so that's how simple you can get a free
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Azure SQL database which we're going to
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use in our lab environment
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here deployment usually take 2 minutes
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to finish it so I will pause the video
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and wait it done and we will continue
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after wait one or two minutes your
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deployment should be done you can go to
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resource select your SQL
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database from here what we need
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is connection strings in the
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settings there's a couple things we will
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need we will need
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the host name port number database name
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plus username and password the username
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and password is the one you created your
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SQL server so when you trying to get the
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free database you will be asked to
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create a free server as well so let the
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username password for your free SQL
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server once we have those then we can
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start to install our Unimus and then
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integrate with this MSSQL server
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so let's go to the download
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website we're going to download the
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latest Unimus version which is
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2.6.3 here get the installer it's about
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173
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mgabyte download has been completed you
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may get a list warning message which we
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should be able to select keep show more
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keep anyway so we trust the source we
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trust the application we downloaded and
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we can keep it click open
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file and we can start the
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installation it does deploy Java
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portable environment and then install
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Unimus and then register Unimus service
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and we will start a new service from
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there we can use web portal to configure
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it
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next
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install now it's finished it we can
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click finish to close the installation
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wizard minimize the web
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browser then from um program groups you
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can find the Unimus folder and click on
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the Unimus to start it
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so basically it's going to open a URL
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with local host on port
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8085 you might see this
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error message cannot find the page but
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that's because of the service is still
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starting um after a couple seconds you
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should be able to get into this and user
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license agreement page just say I have
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read and agree to the ula continue
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setup you need to set up the admin
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username and
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password continue
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setup so here is a tricky part you need
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to get the database type selected it
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does support multiple different database
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my
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SQL Maria DB Postgrid SQL or MSSQL so
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we're gonna use MSQL i tried both almost
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all of them actually I tried all of them
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already even Postgret SQL I tried it all
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works well the configuration for
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database is very straightforward as long
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as your host name database port database
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name no information put in it's good to
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go port 1433 database name
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unimus database
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user and then password the encryption
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key is a key will be used to encrypting
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your sensitive data which is your
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configurations backups all those data
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saved in a database so this is important
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if you need to migrate the DB to another
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server so here is a encryption key you
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can put anything here as long as you can
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remember it
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now we have to add the credentials which
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going to be used to log into your
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devices your firewall whatever you will
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need
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it I'm going to add a couple
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of which is going to be used to scan my
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network and then find out the devices
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later
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on here is a
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port you may want to use SSH you may
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also want to use the Tnet let's go to
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continue it's a schedule for
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backup you can keep it a default for
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now the license
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key the license key usually is coming
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from your
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Unimus account
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so once you go to the unimus account you
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will see your license key
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here so let's put our
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username for your account in and then
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password so we can log into account we
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can retrieve the license so from the
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license key here you should be able to
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see which license key you have and how
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many license has been three licenses
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five if you get a free so I already use
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the three of them so you also can create
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a new license key and then you can
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assign a license to it like you can
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select two i have two left so I can
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assign two here or you can delete
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it you can assign more license so we're
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going to assign five to use all of them
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here so this is my key key i'm going to
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copy that's the license key I copy and
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then finish set
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up now it's connecting to the database
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they're going to use the database
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information we provided in previous step
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to connecting to it
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just for your
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information since we are using free
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MSSQL
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DB it will be automatically put into the
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pause mode because if there's a no
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activity no connection no accessing to
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the MSSQL DB they will automatically
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pause it so when you starting to
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connecting to it just like what I am
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doing here connecting to the database
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then it will begin resuming after
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resuming it will be online so as long as
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you using it then the database will keep
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online but you will consuming your free
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monthly vehicle seconds that's why it's
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put into the pause mode once you are not
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using because they want to save your
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vehicle
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seconds right now we are creating and
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updating the database tables because
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this is first time connection once we
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connect to the database they will use
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the account we provided to create whole
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database structure for us it will take a
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while i'm going to pause the video once
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it done i will come back to continue
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so the creating updating database tables
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completed and there's some more database
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related configuration has been
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configured so call connection
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server it's ready that's basic for the
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installation
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so in our previous step we connected our
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unimus server to um SQL database in a
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remote now we
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deployed
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unimus successfully in our
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environment so this part has been
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completed as you can see here this is a
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dashboard we have fire license so now we
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have three devices in here we added in
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previously in my license already license
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three of land so those three has been
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added
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into this installation as well because
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of the
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licensing but we didn't do anything back
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up here so that is what we going to do
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we can do backup now and
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uh make sure all has a backup
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that's a basic scene as you can see once
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we click the backup so backup finish it
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in couple seconds you should be able to
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see the
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backup we just made it here for all of
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them you should be able to see the
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configuration and you also should be
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able to view land and export land the
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list is Palo Alto device you will see
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all configuration for this
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penos same thing on this
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Cisco switch you will see that all
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configuration has been backed up so this
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is the basic function we already
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discussed in my previous video as well
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but there's something new here once you
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go back to device you will find that
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there's a little bit more button you can
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use especially this open CLI
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button if you click on it it will
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open a console directly to your just
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like you using party to do SSH
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connection so you can type the command
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you can show
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configuration this is very convenient
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you don't have to launch another session
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to log into device and see the
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configurations or make some
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troubleshooting there not only for Cisco
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device you also can log to
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this 40
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gate devices right away it's
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layer you can execute
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command as well from layer
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directory that's a new
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feature I was showing at the beginning
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of this video there are couple more
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features which I'm going to show you in
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the next
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video so just keep
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