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Device Configuration Details

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Overview

All the details about a particular device such as
 

 

are presented in a single screen, the "Device Details" UI. From this UI, you can view the above configuration details.

 

To access "Device Details" UI, just click the hostname of the respective device in the inventory UI.

 

In addition to the aforesaid details, the "Device Details" UI provides the following important information:

 

Important Terms

Before proceeding further, it is pertinent to look at the definitions of the following terms:

 

  • Current Configuration: this reflects the currently available configuration in the device

    • Current Startup Configuration: this reflects the currently available startup configuration in the device - this is, the configuration that will be loaded when the device starts up

    • Current Running Configuration: this reflects the currently available running configuration in the device

  • Startup History: History of changes that were done over the Startup Configuration. This is presented in terms of change versions in hierarchical order

  • Running History: History of changes that were done over the Running Configuration. This is presented in terms of change versions in hierarchical order

  • Baseline Configuration: As the name itself indicates, the Baseline configuration refers to a trusted working configuration. You can keep any version of device configuration as the Baseline Configuration. When you want to revert to a safe configuration version or while doing disaster recovery, Baseline configuration would come in handy

  • Labelled Configuration: For any version of configuration, you can associate a label - that is, a unique tag. As configuration versions keep on changing, you will have difficulty in remembering the version number of a particular good configuration. To avoid that, you can associate the version with a label for easy identification

  • Draft Configuration: As the name indicates, this is a new configuration created by you. For creating a draft configuration, you can take up any version of device configuration - startup or running - and save it as a draft as it is or after carrying out some changes. You can also create a new draft altogether

Viewing Configuration Details, History, Diff and Drafts

Current Configuration

Upon clicking the "Current Configuration" tab, Current Startup and Running configuration details are listed. These details are listed under 'Config Type' in the table. The table provides other details such as the present version of the Startup and Running configuration, who created the latest version at what time and also the reason for the change.

Viewing Configuration

To view the configuration details of 'Startup' or 'Running', just click the name of the device and then 'Startup' or 'Running' as needed.

 

You can choose either 'Startup' or 'Running' and then
 

Startup History

Upon clicking the "Startup History" tab, the history of changes that were done over the Startup Configuration are listed with version numbers representing the change. The table provides other details such as who effected the changes at what time and also the reason for the change.

 

You can choose any version in the startup history and then
 

 

Running History

Upon clicking the "Running History" tab, the history of changes that were done over the Running Configuration are listed with version numbers representing the change. The table provides other details such as who effected the changes at what time and also the reason for the change.

 

You can choose any version in the running history and then
 

Draft

Upon clicking the "Draft" tab, the list of all the available drafts are listed. The table provides other details such as the names of the drafts, time of creation of the draft, time of last modification, base version of the draft and comments about the draft.

 

From the Draft tab, you can
 

 

 

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