Cisco Systems manual Using Profiles with Cisco 700 Series Routers, Profile Overview

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Using Profiles with Cisco 700 Series Routers

A profile is a set of configuration parameters associated with ports on the router or WAN devices.

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Profile Overview

System and Profile Parameters

Creating and Modifying Profiles

Incoming Calls

Outgoing Calls

Profile Overview

There are two modes in which you can set parameters, the system mode and the profile mode. System mode parameters affect the configuration on a global level. Profiles are sets of local parameters. Profile mode parameters affect how the router handles the connection to a device.

You do not have to reconfigure the router every time you connect to a different device. Instead of using one set of configuration parameters for all devices, you can use different profiles to communicate with a variety of devices.

For example, you can create a user-defined profile called 2500 that contains the parameters to be used when communicating with a Cisco 2500 series router over the WAN. You can customize your Cisco 700 series router to maintain up to 17 user-defined profiles. Profiles are saved in the Cisco 700 series router nonvolatile RAM (NVRAM).

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