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Chapter 4 Device Configurations and Software Images Global Settings and Administration
Global Settings and Administration
This topic contains the following sections:
• Change Configuration Managemennt Global Settings, page 4-61
• Change Image Management Global Settings, page 4-66
• Check the Processes, page 4-68
• Manage Jobs, page 4-68
• User Authentication and Authorization, page 4-69

Change Configuration Managemennt Global Settings

To open the Configurations global settings page, choose Configurations > Settings. Tabl e 4-8 lists all
of the global settings you can configure for Configuration Manage me nt.
The backup settings you enter here do not affect the manual b acku ps y ou can perf orm by c ho osing
Configurations > Backup. The backups you perform from that page and the backups you c onfigure on
this Settings page are completely independent of each other.
Note Make sure that the configuration change detection schedule does not conflict with purging, since both
processes are database-intensive.
Table 4-8 Configuration Archive Global Settings
Field Description
Export Settings
Server Name DNS-resolvable server name.
Note CCM supports export servers with IPv4 or IPv6 address.
Location The full pathname of the directory to which Prime Network should copy the file on the server
specified in the Server Name field.
Username The login username that Prime Network should use when connecting to the server specified in the
Server Name field.
Password The login pa ssword th at Pri me N et work sho uld use whe n co nne ctin g to the server spec ified in the
Server Name field.
Export Protocol Default export protocol that Prime Network should use when exporting co nfiguration files to another
server. The choices are FTP and SFTP. The default is FTP.
You can override this protocol while scheduling an export job, if required.
Archive Purge Settings
Minimum Versions to
Retain Minimum number of versions of each configuration that should be retained in the archive (default is
2).
Maximum Versions to
Retain Maximum number of versions of each configuration that Prime Network shou ld retain (default is 5).
The oldest configuration is purged when the maximum number is reached. Configurations marked
“do not purge” are not included when calculating this number.