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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
Comparing Configuration
Comparing Configuration
You can compare two device configuration files from version to version or from device to device. You
can also compare the configuration when a device was started with the current configuration, and the
current configuration with the most recently archived configuration.
You can list the commands that have to be excluded while comparing configurations.
To do this select Resource Manager Essentials > Admin > Config Mgmt > Archive Mgmt > Exclude
Commands. See
Configuring Exclude Commands for further details.
You can compare the configurations in these ways:
• Startup vs. Running—Compares the configuration when the device was started with the current
configuration. These configurations are fetched from the device.
See Comparing Startup vs. Running Configurations.
• Running vs. Latest Archived—Compares the running configuration with the most recent archived
configuration. The Running configuration is fetched from the device.
See Comparing Running vs. Latest Archived Configurations.
• Two Versions of the Same Device—Compares two archived configuration versions.
See Comparing Two Configuration Versions of the Same Device.
• Two Versions of Different Devices—Compares any two configurations in the configuration archive.
See Compare Two Configuration Versions of Different Devices.
Comparing Startup vs. Running Configurations
You can compare the configuration when a device was started with the current configuration. These
configurations are fetched from the device.
Note View Permission Report (Common Services > Server > Reports) to check if you have the required
privileges to perform this task.
To compare Startup vs. Running configurations:
Step 1 Select Resource Manager Essentials > Config Mgmt > Archive Mgmt > Compare Configs.
The Compare Configurations dialog box appears.
Edit Launches Config Editor window.
This button is active only if you are viewing the configuration version from the archive.
See Editing and Deploying Configurations Using Config Editor for further details.
Deploy You can perform a configuration quick deploy.
This button is active only if you are viewing the configuration version from the archive.
See Configuration Quick Deploy.
Button Description