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Information and resources about the Administration section of Guardian, and the tasks that you can do in this part of the software.
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Migration tasks
The Migration tasks page gives you access to automated tasks that help you migrate the system configuration and settings to newer standards.

Guardian
- Introduction
  An overview of Guardian.
- Installation Guide
  Information and resources on how to install Guardian, and the different options and settings that are available.
- Administrator Guide
  Information and resources about the Administration section of Guardian, and the tasks that you can do in this part of the software.
  - Administration
    - Administration page
      The administration page lets a user with administrator privileges configure settings and do other tasks.
    - Settings
    - System
      - General
        The General page lets you change the hostname and specify a login banner on a sensor.
      - Date and time
        The Date and time page lets you configure the date and time of a sensor.
      - Updates and licenses
        The Updates and licenses page lets you configure and manage the base software license and the licenses for optional features, such as Smart Polling, Threat Intelligence, Asset Intelligence, Arc, and Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS).
      - Network interfaces
        The Network interfaces page shows information on how much network traffic is being ingested/captured.
      - Upload traces
        The Upload traces page lets you upload trace files and select the options for the uploaded file.
      - Export
        The Export page lets you export data in content packs.
      - Import
        The Import page lets you import data from multiple different sources, and in multiple formats.
      - Health
        The Health page lets you monitor the health of your sensors.
      - Audit
        The Audit page shows a list of all relevant user actions, from login/ logout to configuration operations, such as manually learning or deleting objects from the environment. This includes all recorded user actions based on the internet protocol (IP) address and username of the user who performed the action.
      - Data
        The Data page lets you selectively reset several kinds of data. You can select All, Only data, or None, depending on the type of user data that you want to reset.
      - Migration tasks
        The Migration tasks page gives you access to automated tasks that help you migrate the system configuration and settings to newer standards.
      - Operations
        The Operations page lets you reboot or shutdown the sensor, or manage the software updates for your sensor.
      - Support
        The Support page section lets you generate a support archive that you can then send to Customer Support when you need technical support.
      - Backup and restore
        The Backup and restore page lets you generate and schedule backup archives as well as restore the software from a backup.
- User Guide
  Information and resources about the main features of Guardian, and the tasks that you can do from the user interface (UI).
- Maintenance Guide
  Information about the maintenance tasks of Guardian, to help you administer and maintain the solution in a production environment.
- Print format documentation
  A list of all the print-format documentation that is available for Guardian.

Migration tasks

The Migration tasks page gives you access to automated tasks that help you migrate the system configuration and settings to newer standards.

Migration tasks page — Figure 1. Migration tasks page

Migration tasks are a helper tool that can be used to apply specific changes to configuration, settings and data to make use of new features, or adapt to model changes. These tasks become available upon the installation of new versions of the software, and are described in the related release notes.

Migration tasks can only be executed from the top-level Central Management Console (CMC) of an installation. Guardians that are not connected to a CMC can also run migration tasks. If the installation is connected to Vantage, then Vantage can run the migration tasks.

Each migration task is presented separately, giving an overview of the changes that will be applied on each connected sensor. Tasks can be executed on individual Guardians, or on CMCs, When a CMC executes the migration tasks, all the sensors that are connected downstream, either directly or indirectly, receive the instruction to execute the task. You can select Execute all to apply the migration tasks globally. With this approach, migration tasks can be ignored, which disables the execution of the corresponding task on the chosen sensor, or sensors.

When the migration task is executed, a spinning wheel shows next to the sensors that are executing it. Since the execution of a task is an asynchronous process, it can take up to several minutes to complete. During this time, it is safe to leave the page, or disconnect from the Web user interface (UI). The Migration tasks page will report the result of each execution.

You can select Hide permanently to hide migration tasks. This hides the migration task and it cannot be executed again.