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User Guide for Resource Manager Essentials 4.1
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Chapter 8 Archiving Configurations and Managing Them Using Archive Management
Defining the Configuration Collection Settings
4. If you have enabled the Enable Shadow Directory option in the Archive Settings dialog box
(Resource Manager Essentials > Admin > Config Mgmt > Archive Mgmt) the latest running
configuration file is also stored in a raw format for manual TFTP purposes to restore the
configuration on the device, in the directory location:
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On Solaris, /var/adm/CSCOpx/files/rme/dcma/shadow
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On Windows, NMSROOT/files/rme/dcma/shadow. Where NMSROOT is the directory in which
RME is installed (the default is C:\Program Files\CSCOpx)
Note Startup configurations are not ‘versioned’ and only one copy of the startup configuration of devices
(which supports startup configuration), is saved in the system. No change audit records are logged for
changes in the ‘Startup Configuration’ files.
RME first compares the collected configuration file, with the latest configuration in the archive, and
checks to see if there are effective configurations changes from what was previously archived.
Change Audit Logging
Config change audit records include information about, who changed (which user) the configuration,
when the configuration change was identified by RME, and other change information.
• Any configuration change made through the RME system (example, using Config Editor or
Netconfig), will have the user name of the user who scheduled the change job.
• Any configuration change that was done outside of RME and detected through the configuration
retrieval process, has the same user name as reported by the device through the CONFIG-MAN-MIB
variable (ccmHistoryEventTerminalUser).
• Changes identified through syslog messages, contain the user name identified in the Syslog
message, if present.
Defining the Configuration Collection Settings
The configuration archive can be updated with configuration changes in two ways:
• Periodic configuration archival (with and without configuration polling). You can enable this using
Resource Manager Essentials > Admin > Config Mgmt > Archive Mgmt > Collection Settings.
• Manual configuration archival using Resource Manager Essentials > Config Mgmt > Archive
Mgmt > Sync Archive.
You can modify how and when the configuration archive retrieves configurations by selecting one or all
of the following:
Periodic Polling
The configuration archive performs a SNMP query on the device. If there are no configuration changes
detected in the devices, no configuration is fetched.
Periodic Collection
The configuration is fetched without checking for any changes in the configuration.
By default, the Periodic Collection and Polling are disabled.