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Chapter 8 Archiving Configurations and Managing Them Using Archive Management

Defining the Configuration Collection Settings

4. If you have enabled the Enable Shadow Directory option in the Archive Settings dialog box

(Resource Manager Essentials > Admin > Config Mgmt > Archive Mgmt) the latest running

configuration file is also stored in a raw format for manual TFTP purposes to restore the

configuration on the device, in the directory location:

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On Solaris, /var/adm/CSCOpx/files/rme/dcma/shadow

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On Windows, NMSROOT/files/rme/dcma/shadow. Where NMSROOT is the directory in which

RME is installed (the default is C:\Program Files\CSCOpx)

Note Startup configurations are not ‘versioned’ and only one copy of the startup configuration of devices

(which supports startup configuration), is saved in the system. No change audit records are logged for

changes in the ‘Startup Configuration’ files.

RME first compares the collected configuration file, with the latest configuration in the archive, and

checks to see if there are effective configurations changes from what was previously archived.

Config change audit records include information about, who changed (which user) the configuration,

when the configuration change was identified by RME, and other change information.

• Any configuration change made through the RME system (example, using Config Editor or

Netconfig), will have the user name of the user who scheduled the change job.

• Any configuration change that was done outside of RME and detected through the configuration

retrieval process, has the same user name as reported by the device through the CONFIG-MAN-MIB

variable (ccmHistoryEventTerminalUser).

• Changes identified through syslog messages, contain the user name identified in the Syslog

message, if present.

Defining the Configuration Collection Settings

The configuration archive can be updated with configuration changes in two ways:

• Periodic configuration archival (with and without configuration polling). You can enable this using

Resource Manager Essentials > Admin > Config Mgmt > Archive Mgmt > Collection Settings.

• Manual configuration archival using Resource Manager Essentials > Config Mgmt > Archive

Mgmt > Sync Archive.

You can modify how and when the configuration archive retrieves configurations by selecting one or all

of the following:

Periodic Polling

The configuration archive performs a SNMP query on the device. If there are no configuration changes

detected in the devices, no configuration is fetched.

Periodic Collection

The configuration is fetched without checking for any changes in the configuration.

By default, the Periodic Collection and Polling are disabled.