Chapter 18: Managing Network Device Configurations And Updates; Archiving Device Configurations - Extreme Networks Ridgeline Guide Manual

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C H A P T E R
This chapter describes how to use Ridgeline to manage your Extreme device configurations. Topics
include:
Archiving device configuration files
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Creating and using Baseline configurations
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Monitoring configuration changes with baselines and the Diff function
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Managing Firmware upgrades
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Per-device change log audit of device configuration events
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In a large network, the task of maintaining and backing up the configurations of your network devices,
and ensuring that your devices are running the correct versions of the ExtremeWare or ExtremeXOS
software images, can be a difficult exercise. Ridgeline's features for archiving the configuration files
from your network devices, for monitoring configuration changes, and for managing the firmware
versions on your devices can help you get this under control and significantly reduce the amount of
administrator intervention required to keep you configurations backed up or the device firmware up to
date. Further, Ridgeline's ability to identify the changes to the configurations on your devices, and to
maintain an audit trail of configuration updates, can help you troubleshoot when configuration
problems arise.

Archiving Device Configurations

You can use Ridgeline to upload and store the configuration files from all your Extreme devices. You
can do this on an as needed basis, but you can also have Ridgeline perform archival uploads on a
regular schedule without requiring administrator intervention. Thus, you can ensure that you always
have back ups for your configurations in case problems arise on your devices.
To schedule regular archival uploads of the configuration files from your devices, select Configuration
> Tasks > Schedule archive from the Tools menu. You can also schedule archiving for an individual
device, or for the devices in a device group, by selecting the devices or group in the Configuration
Manager window and then selecting Schedule archive from the Config menu.
You can create archive schedules for individual devices or for device groups, and you can create a
global archive schedule for all devices that do not have individual schedules.
Figure 249 shows the Schedule Upload window for scheduling device schedules. You can select
individual devices or all members of a device group for archival uploading.
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