Cisco Systems 4.1 Making and Deploying Configuration Changes Using NetConfig

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Making and Deploying Configuration Changes
Using NetConfig
NetConfig allows you to make configuration changes to your network devices, whose configurations are
archived in the Configuration Archive. NetConfig is a part of RME Configuration Management
applications.
It provides easy access to the configuration files for all RME supported devices.
NetConfig automatically updates the Configuration Archive when it makes device configuration
changes.
NetConfig provides many advantages over configuring devices from the CLI. For example, you can:
• Schedule jobs for future execution. You can schedule periodic jobs.
• Use configuration tasks to make configuration changes more easily and reliably.
• Run multiple commands during a job.
• Run commands on multiple devices during a job.
• Use the Job Approval application to require approval before a job can run.
• Roll back configuration changes made to devices when a job fails.
NetConfig Tasks
As a NetConfig user, you can:
• Define and schedule NetConfig jobs:
To make configuration changes to managed devices, you define and schedule NetConfig jobs using
the job definition wizard. You can use configuration tasks (system-defined or user-defined) to create
the configuration commands that you want to apply to devices.
• Browse and edit NetConfig jobs:
You can browse all NetConfig jobs on your system and edit, copy, stop, retry or delete them. For
more information about a particular job, you can click the job details by clicking on the hyperlink
of the Job ID in the NetConfig Job Browser.
• Use the command line interface for NetConfig jobs:
You can use the cwcli command line interface to create and schedule NetConfig jobs from the
command line.
As a NetConfig administrator, you can: