Sophos Email Appliance: getting started

This article provides additional information that you need before you start to use your Sophos Email Appliance.

Additional hardware

You will require the following:

• A laptop, or other computer, with Internet Explorer 6.0 and above or Firefox 1.07 and above installed. You will use this to manage the Appliance.
• Two (2) Cat 5 connection cables, required for connecting,
  • the Appliance to your LAN
  • the Appliance to your management computer.

Configuring the management computer

Configure the computer that you will use to manage the Appliance as follows:

• set the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0
• set the IP address to 172.24.24.1
• point your browser to https://172.24.24.172

Incorporating the Appliance into your network

Illustrated examples of where to connect the Appliance to your network are given in the Appliance Help files. In the 'Table of Contents', go to 'Getting Started' and click 'Mail Routing'.

Help is preinstalled on the Appliance, and is available online once the appliance is running. You can also view the Appliance Help before setting up the appliance. You can view the ApplianceHelp by clicking the relevant link in the email that is sent to you with your activation code.

Network information

You must obtain the following information about your network. You will be prompted for it during configuration of your Appliance.

• Hostname for appliance
• IP address for the appliance
• Primary MX record, IP address, fully qualified DNS
• Secondary MX record, IP address, fully qualified DNS
• Hostname and IP address of mail server (MDA)
• Recipient domains
• IP addresses and hostnames of all systems allowed to relay in and out of the appliance
• LDAP hostname, IP address, login credentials, ports, query information

You will also need the Appliance activation code, which you will have received by email.