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Listing devices where running config does not match startup config

Good afternoon,

Recently had an issue where a change to a device had not been saved, NCM has a graph showing % of config, how do I drill down and find these exceptions?

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nbs

Update, found it, for some reason when I first tried clicking on the graph it didnt drill down, probably being too impatient.

However, lot of the devices are showing as unknown, whilst most devices (180 PIX 501s and 120 or so ASA 5505s) are not IOS routers, we have 138 Cisco 800 series routers being monitored and 4 Cisco 877s, are we able to monitor the startup / running conflicts on PIXs and ASAs and how do I enable this for the 800 series routers?

superfly

If you can get NCM to successfully backup a config, then you'll be able to get it to compare running/startup configs. Depending on the device you'll need to play around with the Login Information and Communications sections for the device. For some device you may need to create a Device Command Template or do a search as someone may have created one already.

For example, I backup the configs on some Tandberg devices I have.For Login Information I have the username and password and Enable Level set to <No Enable Login>. In the Communication section I have a Tandberg template and Execute Scripts Using, Request Configs Using and Transfer Configs Using are all set to SSH2.

If you can connect to a device and download a config somehow, then NCM should be able to do the same thing.

nbs

Thanks superfly, NCM is backing up the running config, but not the startup config despite it being told to do so.

nbs

Updated the scheduled job to download the startup (I thought this was changed through the web ui not the GUI), however now the chart shows that 78% of my device running configs dont match the startup configs, but going through and comparing I dont see the difference?