User guide

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Configure an FTP/TFTP Server
Follow these steps to configure an FTP / TFTP server:
1 Right-click and select New in the File Servers portlet.
2 After entering all required details click Save to save new file server.
3 Click Te s t to validate the new file server is working.
Do Configuration File Backup / Restore
Provided you have permissions, you can backup configuration file(s) for a single device or group of
devices, either on demand or as scheduled. Follow these steps:
1 In the default Dell OpenManage Network Manager screen layout, in the Managed Resources
portlet, select (click on) a Managed Resource of interest.
2 Right-click on selected resource in the Managed Resources portlet, and then click File
Management > Restore
or Backup .
3 Enter the information needed to create the backup or restoration.
4 Optionally click Add Schedule to schedule the backup task.
5 Click Execute to immediately do backup or Save to save the configured backup to run later.
Deploy a single configuration to many target devices
The following steps describe deploying a single configuration to many discovered devices without
overwriting those devices’ essential information.
1 Back up a single device’s configuration.
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
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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.