Specifications

5.9 Recovery Manager
Management Tools 5–15
5.9 Recovery Manager
The Recovery Manager application is used to save the configuration of a supported
network device to a file on disk and restore that configuration back to the network
device.
The graphical user interface allows you to restore the configuration settings to the
same or to a like module.
You can back up and restore an entire hub configuration or a partial hub
configuration.
5.9.1 Recovery Manager Features
Recovery Manager offers the following features:
• Operates through a graphical user interface (GUI)
• Saves writable SNMP configuration parameters from a network device to a file
• Restores saved parameters from a file to a network device
• Creates command files to perform backup and restore operations at a later time
• Backs up and restores network devices interactively or from command files
• Modifies backup and restore command files
• Provides on-line help that describes the GUI windows, user tasks and provides
troubleshooting information
5.9.2 Entire Hub Configuration
You can use Recovery Manager to back up and restore configurations of entire
DEChub 900 hubs, thereby selecting all slots and all parameter subsets in each slot.
A full backup of a hub provides a baseline configuration that can be restored
whenever the network has been configured improperly or is in an undesired state.
Backups of entire hubs also provide a catalog of network configurations. Once a hub
is configured using a network management tool such as MultiChassis Manager, you
can use Recovery Manager to back up that configuration and then restore a given
configuration from the list of saved configurations already backed up.
Recovery Manager’s batch mode (command files) allows you to automate back up
and restore operations. You can back up and restore network configurations on a
schedule that you choose using Windows NT and Windows 95’s scheduling service.