Quick Start Manual
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5
Optionally click
Add Schedule
to schedule the backup task. See Schedules on page 89 of the
Synergy User Guide
for details.
6
Click
Execute
to immediately do backup or
Save
to save the configured backup to run later.
How To:
Restore a single configuration to many target devices
The following steps describe restoring a single configuration to many discovered devices without
overwriting those devices’ essential information.
1
Back up a single device’s configuration that is nearest to the kind you would like to see
generally.
2
Right-click this backed up file in the File Management portlet, and
Promote
it so it appears in
the Image Repository portlet.
3
Right-click > Edit the promoted configuration in the Image Repository.
4
Name the file, and, if necessary, configure a filter In the
General Parameters
tab of the editor.
5
In the
Configuration
tab, locate the parameters you want to preserve in discovered devices
when you restore this file. This can include items like the device’s DNS Hostname, IP
Address, and so on. Delete the file’s specifics and double-click to insert the
Targ e t Pa r a ms
in
place of these variables.
6
Save the configuration.
7
Right-click to deploy this configuration.
8
You can check
Generate and save for configuration only
if you simply want to configure
deployment for later, and save for now. You can also optionally name a label for the deployed
files.
9
Select the devices, or groups of devices to which you want to deploy.
10
Click
Save, Execute
or
Add Schedule
depending on your desired outcome.
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If you click
Execute
, you will have to confirm this action.
When Dell OpenManage Network Manager performs the restoration (deploy), it reads the
Target Params from those discovered for each device, inserts those in the config file, then
restores it, device by device, skipping any that do not pass the filter set up in step 4.
Fault Management - Problem Diagnosis
Dell OpenManage Network Manager lets you diagnose network problems with its Alarms viewer,
and lets you monitor performance with its Performance Management - Troubleshooting
capabilities, as described below. The following briefly outlines these capabilities