I have few VPN routers and I need to start backing up via Solarwinds. But the backup includes stop/start LDAP as well. any feeback will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
William
William,
I manage configuration changes on several Contivity 2700's with the generic Device Command Template:
<!-- edited with XML Spy v4.4 U (http://www.xmlspy.com) by () --><!--SolarWinds Network Management Tools--><!--Copyright 2005 SolarWinds.Net All rights reserved--><Configuration-Management Device="Generic CLI Devices" SystemOID=" 1.3.6.1.4.1"> <Commands> <Command Name="RESET" Value="terminal width 0${CRLF}terminal length 0"/> <Command Name="Reboot" Value="reload${CRLF}Yes"/> <Command Name="RebootAt" Value="reload at ${HH}:${NN}${CRLF}Yes"/> <Command Name="EnterConfigMode" Value="config terminal"/> <Command Name="ExitConfigMode" Value="end"/> <Command Name="Startup" Value="configuration"/> <Command Name="Running" Value="running"/> <Command Name="DownloadConfig" Value="Show ${ConfigType}"/> <Command Name="UploadConfig" Value="${EnterConfigMode}${CRLF}${ConfigText}${CRLF}${ExitConfigMode}"/> <Command Name="DownloadConfigIndirect" Value="copy ${ConfigType} ${TransferProtocol}://${StorageAddress}/${StorageFilename}"/> <Command Name="UploadConfigIndirect" Value="copy ${TransferProtocol}://${StorageAddress}/${StorageFilename} ${ConfigType}"/> <Command Name="EraseConfig" Value="write erase${CRLF}Yes"/> <Command Name="SaveConfig" Value="write memory"/> <Command Name="Version" Value="show version"/> </Commands></Configuration-Management>
I've seen that doing a restore from the backed up 2700 configurations has issues, since there are carriage returns inside the config. Given there are 90,000+ lines in some of my config backups, going through all of them and removing the line feeds is tedious at best.
Nortel's VPN router has an automated backup to ftp or sftp feature you should use. Just go to the Contivity, choose Admin, then choose Auto Backup and set the options you want to use. You can choose to backup configs, logs, and system files. Obviously you'll need to set up an FTP server to host the transactions.
On our VPN routers I rely on NCM for managing configurations and tracking config changes made on a daily basis. I don't rely on it for restoring configurations.
In that same context, I back up Contivity 1750's and 1740's with NCM, letting NCM use the Auto Determine option in the template. It works perfectly.
Finally, I also backup and manage configurations on numerous smaller Contivity 1050's using this script:
<!-- edited with XML Spy v4.4 U (http://www.xmlspy.com) by () --><!--SolarWinds Network Management Tools--><!--Copyright 2005 SolarWinds.Net All rights reserved--><Configuration-Management Device="Generic CLI Devices" SystemOID=" 1.3.6.1.4.1"> <Commands> <Command Name="RESET" Value="terminal width 0${CRLF}terminal length 0"/> <Command Name="Reboot" Value="reload${CRLF}Yes"/> <Command Name="RebootAt" Value="reload at ${HH}:${NN}${CRLF}Yes"/> <Command Name="EnterConfigMode" Value="en"/> <Command Name="ExitConfigMode" Value="exit ${CRLF} exit ${CRLF}"/> <Command Name="Startup" Value="running"/> <Command Name="Running" Value="running"/> <Command Name="DownloadConfig" Value="Show ${ConfigType}"/> <Command Name="UploadConfig" Value="${EnterConfigMode}${CRLF}${ConfigText}${CRLF}${ExitConfigMode}"/> <Command Name="DownloadConfigIndirect" Value="copy ${ConfigType} ${TransferProtocol}://${StorageAddress}/${StorageFilename}"/> <Command Name="UploadConfigIndirect" Value="copy ${TransferProtocol}://${StorageAddress}/${StorageFilename} ${ConfigType}"/> <Command Name="EraseConfig" Value="write erase${CRLF}Yes"/> <Command Name="SaveConfig" Value="write memory"/> <Command Name="Version" Value="show version"/> </Commands></Configuration-Management>
I wish you the best of luck configuring your Nortel VPN routers to work well with NCM. NCM really lets us keep track of the changes being made to the VPN routers, if/when the VPN router administrators occasionally miss updating our team about the changes.
Rick
