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User Guide for Resource Manager Essentials 4.1
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Chapter 1 Overview of RME
Config Mgmt (Tab)
Group Administration
Grouping devices and working with groups provides convenience to you in selecting required devices.
You can define several groups of devices based on a set of criteria and manage the same. Device grouping
provides an easy way of selecting the required devices.
Group Administration Tasks
You can perform the following tasks using Group Administration. See Table 1-3:
Config Mgmt (Tab)
The Configuration Management application stores the current, and a user-specified number of previous
versions, of the configuration files for all supported Cisco devices maintained in the RME. It tracks
changes to configuration files and updates the database if a change is made.
As the network administrator, you need to be able to control and track changes to device configurations
to minimize errors and assist in troubleshooting problems. This can be very difficult if several different
users are making changes to the device configurations. It can also become very repetitive and
time-consuming. Configuration Management can help simplify and automate these tasks.
From this tab you can launch these Configuration Management applications:
• Archive Management
• Config Editor
• NetConfig
Archive Management
The Archive Management application maintains an active archive of the configuration of devices
managed by RME. It provides an,
• Ability to fetch, archive, and deploy the device configurations,
• Ability to handle Syslog triggered config fetches, thereby ensuring that the archive is in sync with
the device.
• Ability to search and generate reports on the archived data
• Ability to compare and label configurations, compare configurations with a baseline and check for
compliance.
Ta b l e 1-3 Group Administration Tasks
Task Launch Point
Manage RME devices using Device Grouping. You can:
• Create a Group
• Edit a Group
• Delete a Group
• View Group Details
Resource Manager Essentials > Devices > Group
Administration