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# Adding Attachments to a Configuration

You can add attachments to a configuration to provide supporting resources to the configuration. Attachments can be: restore and validate procedures, checklists, knowledge base articles, deployment documents, customer order forms, graphics, etc...

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potential compromise of System availability, integrity, and confidentiality

• Change default passwords to help prevent unauthorized access to device settings and information.

• Disable unused ports/services and default accounts to help minimize pathways for malicious attackers.

• Place networked devices behind multiple layers of cyber defenses (such as firewalls, network segmentation, and network intrusion detection and protection).

• Use cyber security best practices (for example: least privilege, separation of duties) to help prevent unauthorized exposure, loss, or modification of data and logs, or interruption of services.

Failure to follow these instructions can result in death, serious injury, equipment damage, or permanent loss of data.

Note: Adding attachments can introduce malicious software or viruses to the configuration. See Configuration Manager security for details on how to minimize potential security risks.

To attach a file to a configuration:

1. Read a system.
2. Click the Attachments tab.
3. Click Add.
4. Navigate to and select the files that you want to attach and then click Open.

   The file is attached to the configuration. The file name, type, size, date added to the configuration, and date modified are displayed.

5. Click Save to Archive.

   The attached files are saved with the configuration.

   Note: Attachments that you add to a configuration are lost if you do not save the configuration to an archive.

Tip: If you want to reread from a system, you do not need to re-add attachments. Attachments that you add prior to rereading a system are retained in memory and will be loaded again.

To open an attachment, in the attachment row click (Open).

To download an attachment, in the attachment row click (Save As).

To delete an attachment, in the attachment row click (Delete).