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User Guide for Resource Manager Essentials 4.1

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Chapter 10 Editing and Deploying Configurations Using Config Editor

Deploying a Configuration File

Step 4 Click Submit.

An immediate Deploy of Configuration on Device job will be scheduled.

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 Config Editor Deploy job by selecting RME > Config Mgmt

> Config Editor > Config Editor Jobs.

• Configurations edited from Raw mode (.RAW) can be downloaded to both Startup or Running

configuration of the device.

Job Password • If you have enabled the Enable Job Password option and disabled the User Configurable

option in the Job Policy dialog box (Resource Manager Essentials > Admin > Config Mgmt

> Config Job Policies) enter the device login user name and password and device Enable

password.

• If you have enabled the Enable Job Password option and enabled the User Configurable

option in the Job Policy dialog box (Resource Manager Essentials > Admin > Config Mgmt

> Config Job Policies) either:

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Enter the device login user name and password and device Enable password

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Disable the Job Password option in the Job Schedule and Options dialog box.

Deploy Mode

Overwrite Select the Overwrite option, if you want to replace the existing running configuration on the

device, with the selected configuration.

This is the default option for the configuration deployment.

The configuration that you have selected is compared with the latest running configuration in the

Configuration Archive. (RME assumes that the latest running configuration in the archive is the

same as the configuration currently running on the device.)

The Overwrite mode ensures that the running configuration on the device is overwritten with the

selected configuration. This means, after the configuration is successfully deployed, the selected

configuration and the running configuration on the device are the same.

Overwrite mode supports Write2Run of the configuration only.

Merge Select the Merge option, if you want to add incremental configuration to the device.

The configuration that you have selected is deployed on to the device as is. This means, the

existing running configuration of the device is updated incrementally with the commands in the

selected configuration.

The selected running configuration is not compared with the running configuration in the

Configuration Archive.

We recommend that you use this option on newly deployed devices. This is because, the Merge

option effectively deploys the entire configuration from the archive, on to the device.

Merge mode supports both Write2Run and Write2Start of the configuration.

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