Any way to exclude a device from downloading startup configs?

cdow2011

We have a large number of devices (not ALL, but lots) which do not actually have startup configs. (RuggedCom rx1500's.) Maybe I'm missing it, but is there any way to tell NCM that this device doesn't download startup configs?

I tried pulling the Startup Config line out of the device template. Also tried replacing "startup" with "". Neither worked.

For the time being, I've edited the device template to download the running config for both running and startup, but there's really no point in downloading the configs twice.

If there's no way to do this currently, I'll probably submit this as a feature request. It seems really basic. Thanks.

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wluther

cdow2011 I simply build another NCM job to backup those devices separately from the other devices. Within the job, I specify to only download the running configs. That is how I handle this task for our Cisco ASR 9K devices.

Let us know if that works for you, please.

Thank you,

-Will

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wluther

Let us know if that works for you, please.

Thank you,

-Will

cdow2011

I'll have to look into this, thank you!

How does the running/startup mismatch report pie chart work, then? Do you do something to exclude these devices from that comparison?

wluther

They do show up under the "Unknown" tab, or pie slice. However, I have a simple table setup, using a SWQL query, to show me the "real" stats, which do not include the "unknown" devices.

This is the SWQL query I use to create the table that shows me only the devices that either DO or DO NOT have conflicts, there is no try... err.. I mean, there are no "unknown" devices....

select distinct  CASE  WHEN CacheResults.DiffFlags = 1 THEN 'conflict'  WHEN CacheResults.DiffFlags = 0 THEN 'noConflict'  ELSE 'unknown'  END as NCMNodeStatus,  Orion.NodeID,  Orion.Caption,  Orion.IPAddress,  CacheResults.DiffFlags,Orion.DetailsUrl,Orion.Status,Orion.ChildStatus,Orion.Vendor  FROM Cirrus.NodeProperties as NCMNodeProperties  join Orion.Nodes as Orion on Orion.NodeID=NCMNodeProperties.CoreNodeId  join(select NodeIDfrom Orion.NodesCustomPropertieswhere Testing="False") as OrionCustomPropertieson Orion.NodeId= OrionCustomProperties.NodeId  inner join Orion.Vendors AS OrionVendors ON Orion.Vendor=OrionVendors.Name  left join  (  select  DiffFlag as DiffFlags,  NodeID  from Cirrus.LatestComparisonResults  where  ComparisonType=1  ) as CacheResults  on NCMNodeProperties.NodeID=CacheResults.NodeIDwhere CacheResults.DiffFlags = 1ORDER BY Orion.Caption ASC

I hope that helps.

Thank you,

-Will