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6 Managing Network Device Configurations and
Updates
This chapter describes how to use EPICenter to manage your Extreme device configurations. Topics
include:
● Archiving device configuration files
● Creating and using Baseline configurations
● Monitoring configuration changes with baselines and the Diff function
● Managing Firmware upgrades
● Per-device change log audit of device configuration events
In a large network, the task of maintaining and backing up the configurations of your network devices,
and ensuring that your devices are running the correct versions of the ExtremeWare software images,
can be a difficult exercise. EPICenter’s features for archiving the configuration files from your network
devices, for monitoring configuration changes, and for managing the firmware versions on your devices
can help you get this under control and significantly reduce the amount of administrator intervention
required to keep you configurations backed up or the device firmware up to date. Further, EPICenter’s
ability to identify the changes to the configurations on your devices, and to maintain an audit trail of
configuration updates, can help you troubleshoot when configuration problems arise.
Archiving Component Configurations
You can use EPICenter to upload and store the configuration files from all your Extreme devices. You
can do this on an as needed basis, but you can also have EPICenter perform archival uploads on a
regular schedule without requiring administrator intervention. Thus, you can ensure that you always
have back ups for your configurations in case problems arise on your devices.
To schedule regular archival uploads of the configuration files from your devices, click the Archive
button in the Configuration Manager Toolbar (or select Archive from the Config menu). You can also
schedule archiving for an individual device, or for the devices in a device group, by selecting the device
or group in the Component Tree and then selecting Archive from the right-click pop-up menu.
You can create archive schedules for individual devices or for device groups, and you can create a
global archive schedule for all devices that do not have individual schedules.
Figure 48 shows the Schedule Upload window for scheduling device schedules. You can select
individual devices or all members of a device group for archival uploading.
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