Managing Historical Configurations

There are two primary historical configuration management operations:

• Browsing configurations
• Configuration comparison

To browse previously saved configurations of a device, run Manage Configurations action. This action is located in Configuration Management group.

The action opens a list of historical configurations showing:

• Backup date/time
• Configuration type
• Configuration label, i.e. human-friendly description of this particular backup
• Configuration text
• Flag indicating that current configuration is a baseline configuration
• Last request time

Configuration list allows to:

• Delete selected historical configurations
• Edit configuration labels
• Modify configuration texts
• Mark configurations as baselines

To compare two previously saved configurations side-by-side, run Compare Configuration action. This action is located in Configuration Management group.

The action first prompts an operator to select configurations for comparison. After that, both configurations are opened in a visual difference viewer.

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