Enabling The Cisco Ios Cns Agent; Enabling An Initial Configuration - Cisco IE-3000-8TC Software Configuration Manual

Chapter 6 Configuring Cisco IOS Configuration Engine

Enabling the Cisco IOS CNS Agent

After enabling the CNS event agent, start the Cisco IOS CNS agent on the switch. You can enable the
Cisco IOS agent with these commands:
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Enabling an Initial Configuration

Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to enable the CNS configuration agent and
initiate an initial configuration on the switch:
Command
Step 1
configure terminal
Step 2 cns template connect name
Step 3 cli config-text
Step 4
Step 5 exit
Step 6 cns connect name [retries number] [retry-interval
seconds] [sleep seconds] [timeout seconds]
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The cns config initial global configuration command enables the Cisco IOS agent and initiates an
initial configuration on the switch.
The cns config partial global configuration command enables the Cisco IOS agent and initiates a
partial configuration on the switch. You can then use the Configuration Engine to remotely send
incremental configurations to the switch.
Purpose
Enter global configuration mode.
Enter CNS template connect configuration mode, and
specify the name of the CNS connect template.
Enter a command line for the CNS connect template.
Repeat this step for each command line in the template.
Repeat Steps 2 to 3 to configure another CNS connect
template.
Return to global configuration mode.
Enter CNS connect configuration mode, specify the name
of the CNS connect profile, and define the profile
parameters. The switch uses the CNS connect profile to
connect to the Configuration Engine.
Enter the name of the CNS connect profile.
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(Optional) For retries number, enter the number of
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connection retries. The range is 1 to 30. The default
is 3.
• (Optional) For retry-interval seconds, enter the
interval between successive connection attempts to the
Configuration Engine. The range is 1 to 40 seconds.
The default is 10 seconds.
(Optional) For sleep seconds, enter the amount of time
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before which the first connection attempt occurs. The
range is 0 to 250 seconds. The default is 0.
(Optional) For timeout seconds, enter the amount of
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time after which the connection attempts end. The
range is 10 to 2000 seconds. The default is 120.
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