Owners Manual

Configuration Management Portlets and Editors | Configuration Management
OMNM 6.5.2 User Guide 461
Configuration File Editor
Use the Configuration File editor to manually edit configuration files, and save them to the
OpenManage Network Manager database. You can edit only non-binary configuration files.
When you select a file from the
Configuration Files portlet, and then right-click to select Edit, the
Configuration File editor opens with the Find/Replace options.
Click the search/replace tool (magnifying glass) to open the text search feature. Select
A/a to
make your search case-sensitive, or
RegEx to use regular expressions to search.
Click the Find button to locate text in the config file. Click Replace
to replace the text found.
Select All and then click Replace
to globally replace all instances of the text found within the
configuration file.
Click Save to preserve your edits, or Close to abandon them. Notice that the edited configuration is
listed with the other Configuration Files in the portlet as a different version than the original. The
version increments by one every time you edit and save a configuration.
Deploy Select this option to deploy an OS Image (firmware). See Deploying Firmware on
page 476 for more.
Some devices, including the Dell EMC Networking FTOS C-Series and E-Series,
first permit then drop telnet connections during deployment or file restoration when
you select restart as part of the process. This can take from six to eight minutes,
though it can take as long as fifteen minutes for a fully populated chassis. During
that time, ping detects the device; however, OpenManage Network Manager cannot
log in to the device until the reboot is complete.
Restoring configurations to Dell Force 10 devices may produce errors when
individual commands already exist in the running config and cannot be overwritten.
OpenManage Network Manager ignores such errors and reports success by default
since the errors indicate a command was not applied, not that restoration was
unsuccessful. Best practice is to restore to startup config to avoid these errors,
especially when scheduling backup or backing up a group on such devices.
“Console Logging” must be turned off on all devices. The messages from console
logging interfere with the communication between OMNM and the device (via CLI)
and can disrupt supported functionality in OMNM.
Export/Import Export lets you save a local copy of the selected config file. Import opens a screen
that lets you select a locally-accessible file to store, view, compare and deploy.
Option Description