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Chapter8 Managing Deployment

Overview of the Deployment Manager and Configuration Archive

•Aborting deployment jobs—You can stop a deployment job even if it is currently running. However,

aborting a job that is in process does not roll back the configuration on devices that have already

been reconfigured, or on devices that are in the process of being reconfigured. Only devices for

which deployment has not started are prevented from being reconfigured. For more information, see

Aborting Deployment Jobs, page 8-51.

•Rolling back to a previous configuration—If you deploy configurations to devices, and then

determine that there is something wrong with the new configurations, you can revert to and deploy

the previous configurations for those devices. For more information, see Rolling Back

Configurations to Devices Using the Deployment Manager, page 8-65.

•Viewing deployment job status—You can display information about the deployment to specific

devices, including information about errors, the proposed configuration, and the transcript of the

download. For more information, see Viewing Deployment Status and History for Jobs and

Schedules, page 8-27.

•Scheduling deployment jobs—You can create deployment schedules to spawn deployment jobs at

regular intervals. In Workflow mode, you can also schedule a deployment job to start at a future time

when you deploy the job. Scheduling jobs lets you plan deployments for times when traffic on

devices is low. For more information, see these topics:

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Creating or Editing Deployment Schedules, page 8-52

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Deploying Configurations in Workflow Mode, page 8-35

•Logging deployment job history (Workflow mode only)—You can view the history of transactions

for a job. The transactions show the changes in job status initiated by various users, such as job

approval, and the comments related to those status changes. For more information, see Viewin g

Deployment Status and History for Jobs and Schedules, page 8-27.

Deployment Manager Window

Use the Deployment Manager window to manage deployment jobs and schedules. You can display a list

of deployment jobs, view job details, deploy and redeploy configurations to devices, abort deployment

jobs, roll back to previous configurations on selected devices, and create schedules to automatically

generate deployment jobs. You can also track changes made to deployment jobs and schedules.

Note The buttons available in the Deployment Manager depend on the Workflow mode you are using.

Navigation Path

Click the Deployment Manager button on the Main toolbar or select Manage > Deployments.