Reverting servers to stand-alone appliances

Describes how servers in the IBM® API Connect cloud can be reimaged to function as a stand-alone appliance.

About this task

The virtual and physical appliances that are defined as the servers for an IBM API Connect cloud can be reimaged to function as a stand-alone appliance. When you revert a server to a stand-alone appliance, all data and logs previously on the server are wiped clean.

Procedure

  1. Remove the server from the API Connect cloud.
  2. Log in to the corresponding appliance command line interface through a secure shell (SSH).
  3. Reconfigure the appliance:
    1. For DataPower® appliances: Enter the command reinit filename to reconfigure the appliance, where filename represents a firmware image within the image directory. This command deletes all existing configuration data. All network configuration data is also deleted and the admin user password is reset to the default setting, "admin".
    2. For non DataPower appliances, enter one of the following commands:
      • system clean apiconfig. This command removes only IBM API Connect configuration information, and is the fasted way to revert an existing server to a stand-alone appliance.
      • system clean all. This command removes all data and configurations. The result is equivalent to restoring factory default settings for the appliance. The network settings are also reset to use the default DHCP setting and the appliance tries to use a DHCP server. If there is no DHCP server, the appliance is not active on the network.