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Chapter 8 Archiving Configurations and Managing Them Using Archive Management
Generating an Out-of-Sync Report
Step 4 Click Submit.
A message appears, Job ID is created successfully.
Where ID is a unique Job number.
Step 5 Click OK.
You can check the status of your scheduled Sync Archive job by selecting Config Mgmt > Archive
Mgmt > Archive Mgmt Jobs.

Generating an Out-of-Sync Report

You can generate an Out-of-Sync report for the group of devices for which running configurations are
not synchronized with the startup configuration.
Note View Permission Report (Common Services > Server > Reports) to check if you have the required
privileges to perform this task.
Select Resource Manager Essentials > Config Mgmt > Archive Mgmt > Out-of-Sync Summary to
generate an Out-of-sync report.
The Startup and Running Out-Of-Sync Summary window displays the following information:
Job Information
Job Description Enter a description for the job. This is mandatory. You can enter only alphanumeric characters.
E-mail Enter e-mail addresses to which the job sends messages at the beginning and at the end of the job.
You can enter multiple e-mail addresses separated by commas.
Configure the SMTP server to send e-mails in the View / Edit System Preferences dialog box
(Common Services > Server > Admin > System Preferences).
We recommend that you configure the CiscoWorks E-mail ID in the View / Edit System Preferences
dialog box (Common Services > Server > Admin > System Preferences). When the job starts or
completes, an e-mail is sent with the CiscoWorks E-mail ID as the sender's address.
Job Options
Poll device before
configuration
collection
Archive Management polls the device and compares the time of change currently on the device with
the time of last archival of configuration to determine if configuration has changed on a device.
If the polling is not supported on the device, then configuration fetch will be initiated without
checking for the changes.
See Understanding Configuration Retrieval and Archival for further details on configuration polling.
Fetch startup config Archive Management fetches the startup configuration.
Field Description