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Chapter 8 Managing Deployment

Working with Deployment and the Configuration Archive

Step 3 Click Add from Device. Security Manager logs into the device, retrieves the running configuration, and

adds it to the archive.

Viewing and Comparing Archived Configuration Versions

Using the Configuration Archive, you can view the previous configurations for a device, compare

versions of the configuration, and view the transcripts related to configuration deployment. To open the

Configuration Archive window, select Manage > Configuration Archive.

To view the configuration versions for a device, select the device in the device selector. All archived

versions are listed in the right pane. You can do the following:

•To view a configuration, select it and click View, which opens the Config Version Viewer dialog box

with the configuration displayed in the left pane (for information about the dialog box, see

Configuration Version Viewer, page8-56).

If there is more than one type of configuration available for the selected version, you can choose

which type to view using the Config Type field. A Full version is a complete configuration, whereas

a Delta version is just the commands that were different between this version and the device’s

previous full configuration. Delta configurations might include negative commands.

•To compare configurations, select one and click View. In the Config Version Viewer window, select

the configuration you want to compare in the Compare with Version field. The second version

appears in the right pane with differences color-coded according to the caption below the display

area.

•To view the transcript associated with the deployment of a configuration, do one of the following:

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From the Configuration Archive window, double-click the icon in the Transcript column for the

desired configuration.

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When viewing a configuration in the left pane of the Config Version Viewer dialog box, click

Tran scr ipt Vi ew.

A transcript is the log file of transactions between Security Manager and a device captured during a

deployment or rollback operation. It includes commands sent and received between server and

device from the time of the deployment or rollback request, but it does not include communication

that occurs during the initial discovery phase of deployment, when Security Manager obtains the

current configuration from the device. If rollback is unsuccessful, there might be a partial transcript

generated depending on which stage rollback or deployment failed. The transcript is displayed in

the Transcript Viewer window (see Viewing Deployment Transcripts, page 8-58).

You can configure the number of configuration versions to archive on the Configuration Archive settings

page (see Configuration Archive Page, page 11-3).

Use the Config Version Viewer window (when opened from the Configuration Archive) to view previous

configurations for a device and to compare them to other archived configurations. You can compare any

version to any other version in the archive for a selected device. The selected version appears in the left