Getting Started Guide

Astaro RED

Congratulations on your purchase of the Astaro RED security appliance, to protect your data

and computers of your branch office. This Getting Started Guide describes in short steps the

assembly of the appliance and how to connect to your central office.

Before you begin, please make sure that you have a working Internet connection.

1. Unpack device and prepare for installation

2. Activate your device

Getting Started Guide

Operating Instructions

RJ45 Ethernet cablePower supply

RED-ID:

After checking the complete-

ness of the scope of supply

identify the unique RED-ID

printed at the bottom of your

unit and note it within the

area below:

Administrator’s name and phone-number:

Astaro RED Appliance

Call your company’s system administrator, who needs to activate your device on your

central Astaro Security Gateway. Tell him the RED-ID noted above. Wait until he has

confirmed a successfull activation before proceeding with the next step.

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LAN4 LAN3 LAN2 LAN1 WAN

LAN4 LAN3 LAN2 LAN1 WAN

Internet

Tunnel

5. Connect the device to the power supply

6. Establish a Tunnel to your central ASG

3. Connect a LAN port to your PC or the internal network (LAN)

4. Connect the WAN port to the external network

Use an Ethernet cable to

connect your PCs directly or via

a patch panel, hub or switch to

any of the LAN ports (1 - 4).

Switch

Internal Network

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Internet

WAN

e.g. DSL Router or Cable Modem

The appliance will now auto-

matically retrieve it’s configuration

file from the internet and establish

a tunnel to your central office.

Use the orange Ethernet cable

(from the scope of supply) to

connect the WAN port to your

router or cable modem that

connects to the Internet.

If three LEDs are rotatory blinking the device is installing

a new firmware version - DO NOT POWER IT OFF!

It will reboot automatically.

Power on

System booted

Internet connectivity up

Device flashing

After the system has booted it will connect to the Internet.

The status LEDs should then be turned ON as follows:

Connect the appliance to the power

supply from the scope of supply. Plug the

power supply into the electrical outlet.

SwitchInternal Network

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LAN1-4

Client PCs

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The Tunnel status LED should now turn ON as follows: Tunnel up

If you don’t see all four LEDs turned on or if any LED is blinking please refer to the Operating

Instructions to identify possible error states and contact your administrator.

Astaro RED Central ASG