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title: "Deactivating and Reactivating Data Profiles"
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## <span style="color: #000000">Deactivating a Data Profile</span>

<span style="color: #000000">To deactivate an existing data profile, do the following:</span>

1. <span style="color: #000000">From the Infoblox Portal, click </span>**Security** > **Configuration **<span style="color: #000000">> </span><span style="color: #000000">**TIDE**</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>
2. On the *Data Upload *page, <span style="color: #000000">click the </span><span style="color: #000000">**Data Profiles **</span><span style="color: #000000">tab located above the top Action bar.</span>
3. <span style="color: #000000">On the </span><span style="color: #000000">*Data Profiles*</span><span style="color: #000000"> page, click </span><span style="color: #000000">**Deactivate Profiles**</span><span style="color: #000000"> on the top Action bar.</span>
4. From the Profile column, select the data profile to be deactivated by selecting the box to the left of the data profile to be deactivated. Click Deactivate Profiles to deactivate the profile. Or click the three horizontal bars icon followed by <span style="color: #000000">selecting deactivate from the menu options to deactivate the data profile. </span>

> ⚠️ **Note**
> ⚠️ 
> ⚠️ More than one data profile can be deactivated at a time by selecting the data profiles you intend to deactivate and then clicking **Deactivate Profiles**.

## <span style="color: #000000">Reactivating a Data Profile</span>

1. <span style="color: #000000">To re-activate a previously deactivated data profile, select the name of the data profile, and then click </span>> Macro (inline-media-image)

<span style="color: #000000">. From the available data profile choices, click </span><span style="color: #000000">**Edit Profile**</span><span style="color: #000000"> to call up the </span><span style="color: #000000">*Edit Data Profile*</span><span style="color: #000000"> window. On the </span><span style="color: #000000">*Edit Data Profile*</span><span style="color: #000000"> window, toggle </span><span style="color: #000000">**Active**</span><span style="color: #000000"> to the </span><span style="color: #000000">**Yes**</span><span style="color: #000000"> position. Click</span><span style="color: #000000">** Save & Close**</span><span style="color: #000000"> to save the updated data profile configuration.</span>


<span style="color: #000000">For additional information, see the following:</span>

- <span style="color: #003366">*[Viewing Data Profiles](https://docs.infoblox.com/display/BloxOne/Viewing+Data+Profiles)*</span>
- <span style="color: #003366">*[Creating Data Profiles](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BloxOneThreatDefense/pages/35468021)*</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">*[Editing Data Profiles](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BloxOneThreatDefense/pages/35434702)*</span>