NCM Configuration Backup

Hello team, three months ago when the Radius password for our switches was changed in August. As a consequence, the NCM (Network Configuration Manager) is currently not backing up configurations to our local disk.

To address this issue, my plan is to update the Radius password within the NCM settings. I believe I can do this by navigating to NCM Settings > Manage Connection Profiles > (edit) Create New Connection Profile.

I have a couple of questions regarding this:

1. If I update the Radius password, will NCM start backing up configurations to the state they were in back in August?

2. Or, will NCM continue to back up configurations to the most recent state (which what I want)?

Additionally, I would appreciate any insights you might have on potential wider impacts that could arise from this password update.

Thank you for your time and assistance.

Best regards,

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mesverrum

NCM backup jobs generally are just going to run the equivalent commands to a "show running config" and then saves whatever gets returned to the cli. It's not likely, but possible that you could have set up some kind of task to restore configs or do other things so the best way to be sure is to go to the NCM Jobs page and just do a quick review of what kinds of jobs your team has scheduled.

BlackJoe

Thank you for the reply. It is informative.

Here are the jobs list:

I would appreciate any insights you might have on potential wider impacts that could arise from this password update.

mesverrum

Looking at those jobs there is not really any impact except that you will start having working backups again.