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Chapter 4 Device Configurations and Software Images Set Up Change and Configuration Management
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How often are changes made to devices?
7. Specify the default mode of restoring configuration files to the devices using Restore Mode.
8. Configure the SMTP server and e-mail IDs to send notifications on the status of configuration
management jobs to users. (You can also specify e-mail settings when you create a job.)
9. Specify the commands that you want CM to exclude when co mpa rin g files (f or exam pl e, cloc k
rates). A set of common exclude commands i s p rovided by default (for example, ntp-clock-period).
these are controlled in the Exclude Commands area (see Notes on Exclude Commands, page 4-65).
Note Configuring exclude commands is especially important if you are u sing event-driven archiving.
Doing so avoids unnecessary file backups to the archive.
NEIM Setup Tasks
Note In the Configuration Management and Image Management Settings pages, Change and Configuration
Management does not support the following special characters:
• For Password fields—>, <, ', /, \, !, :, ;, and "
• For all other fields—`, ~, @, #, $, %, ^, &, *, (, ), +, =, |, {, }, [, ], ', ?, >, <, /, \, !, :, ;, and "
Caution FTP is not a secure mode of transfer. Use SCP/SFTP instead, for secure config and image transfers.
The following are the NEIM prerequisites, all of which are controlled by the Image Management
Settings page (Images > Settings). Many of these settings can be overridden when you create specific
jobs.
1. Configure the transport protocol that Prime Network will use between the device and the ga teway;
these are controlled from the Transport Protocol area. The options are TFTP, SFTP/SCP, and FTP.
The default is TFTP. Note the following:
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The TFTP source interface on the devices must be able to reach the unit. Otherwise, the image
management jobs that require TFTP may fail.
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To use SFTP/SCP for image transfers from a device to a unit, you need to ensure that an SSH
server is configured and running on the device, such th at the de v ice acts as a serv er an d the unit
as a client during the transfer. For Cisco IOS XR devices, you need to configure the device with
K9 security (k9sec) enabled images such that the SSH server is up and running on the device.
2. Configure the gateway staging directory to use when transferring images from Prime Network out
to devices in the File Locations area. The default is
PRIME_NETWORK_HOME/NCCMComponents/NEIM/staging/. PRIME_NETWORK_HOME is
the Cisco Prime Network installation directory (by default, /export/home/netw ork-user; where
network-user is the operating system user for the Prime Network ap pli cati on and an exam ple of
network-user is network39).
3. In case of insufficient memory, use the Clear Flash option (under Flash Properties). This deletes
any one file (other than the running image) and recovers the disk space occupied by the file. This
procedure is repeated until adequate space is available in the selected flash.