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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.