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VM-Series Deployment Guide

Create the bootstrap.xml File

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Use these instructions to export the configuration from a firewall running on the same platform or hypervisor as your target deployment.

Export a configuration from a firewall.
1. Select DeviceSetupOperations.
2. Select the configuration file you want to export.
  To export the running configuration, in the Configuration Management section, Export named configuration snapshot and select running config.xml from the drop-down.
  To export a previous version of a firewall configuration, in the Configuration Management section, Export configuration version and select the appropriate configuration version in the drop-down.
Rename the configuration file and save.
1. Rename the file to bootstrap.xml.
  For the bootstrap process to be successful, the filename must be an exact (case-sensitive) match.
2. Save the bootstrap.xml file in the same location as the init-cfg.txt file.