Users Guide

Restoring a Configuration to Many Devices | Configuration Management
OMNM 6.5.3 User Guide 477
Restoring a Configuration to Many Devices
You can restore a single configuration to many discovered devices without overwriting those
devices’ essential information. Restore a single configuration to many discovered devices as follows.
1 Back up a single device’s configuration that is closest to the configuration you want to see.
2 Navigate to the File Management Menu portlet.
3 Right-click this backed up file in the File Management Menu portlet, and Promote it (so it
eventually appears in the portlet).
The Editor appears for the promoted configuration.
4 Name the file.
5 Configure a Target Filter if necessary from the editor’s General Parameters panel to confine it
to certain devices by default.
6 Select the Configuration tab.
7 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 Target Params in place of these variables.
8 Save the configuration.
9 Right-click and then select Deploy.
This deploys the configuration to the targets you select.
You can select Generate and save for configuration only if you simply want to deploy later, and
save for now. Also, optionally name a Configuration File Label for the deployed files.
10 Select the devices, or groups of devices to which you want to deploy.
11 Click Save, Execute or Add Schedule depending on your desired outcome.
If you click Execute, confirm the action.
When OpenManage Network Manager deploys the configuration, it reads the Target Params
from those discovered for each device, inserts them in the deployed config file, then restores
the configuration, device by device, skipping any that do not pass the filter set up in step 4.