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Cisco Prime Network 4.0 User Guide
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Chapter 4 Device Configurations and Software Images
Device Configurations
Use the following icons to toggle between different views in the Top Families, Configuration Sync
Status, and Configuration Changes in the Last Week dashlets.
Device Configurations
The following topics explain how to work with device configurations:
• What is In the Archive?, page 4-12
• Protect Configurations in the Archive, page 4-13
• Find Out What is Different Between Configurations, page 4-14
• Copy a Configuration File to a Central Server, page 4-16
• Are Running and Startup Configs Mismatched? (Cisco IOS and Cisco Nexus), page 4-17
• Copy the Device Files to the Archive (Backups), page 4-18
• Fix a Live Device Configuration (Restore), page 4-22
• Clean Up the Archive, page 4-25
• Find Out What Changed on Live Devices, page 4-25
What is In the Archive?
Choose Tools > Change and Config Mgmnt to open Change and Configuration Management.
Choose Configurations > Archives to view the contents of the archive. The CM archive maintains
copies of device configuration files, storing them in the Prime Network database. Configuration files are
stored in readable format, as received from the device. You can edit existing archive files and save for
deployment at a later time. The edited archive files are available in the Edited Archive tab. The total
number of archives available in the Prime Network database is also displayed in the header. The
configuration, after deployment, can also be restored to the original state. Users can only see devices that
are in their device scope. For enhanced security, you might be prompted to enter your device access
credentials when you try viewing device details or when you try performing configuration changes on
devices. This option is enabled if, from the Prime Network Administration > Global Settings >
Security Settings > User Account Settings > Execution of Configuration Operations, you checked
the option Ask for user credentials when running configuration operations.
The Archived Configurations page displays the following information about each configuration file.
Icon Description
Displays the details in the form of a pie or bar chart. If you hover your mouse cursor over
a section in the pie chart, a tooltip displays the information associated with that section.
Displays the details in a tabular form.