User manual
Table Of Contents
- NMS300 Network Management System Application
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Get Started
- 3 Discover and Manage Resources
- Discovery concepts
- Use quick discovery to discover devices on your network
- Use a discovery profile to discover devices on your network
- View and manage the wired and wireless devices on your network
- View device information
- View wireless device information only
- Modify the name, location information, and contact information
- Remove device information
- Synchronize a network device
- Log in to a device
- Ping, perform a traceroute, or reboot a device
- Use the SNMP MIB browser
- View and export the Inventory table and Interface List table
- Manage device groups
- Search for the switch to which a host is connected
- 4 Monitor Devices and the Network
- Monitor the network
- Monitor the top 10 widgets for all devices
- Customize the top 10 page
- View the wireless summary and monitor the top 10 widgets for wireless devices
- View device details and interface details
- Monitor wireless clients and view client details
- Manage the configuration monitors
- Customize the optional network dashboard
- View and export audit logs
- View firmware version information
- View the NMS300 server information
- View application notifications
- 5 Manage Configurations and Firmware
- 6 Manage Alarms and Logs
- 7 Manage Maps and Topologies
- 8 Manage sFlow
- 9 Generate and View Reports
- 10 Manage Jobs
- 11 Manage Users and Security Profiles
- 12 Manage Global Settings and Backups
- 13 Manage Licenses
- 14 Register Devices
- A Technical Specifications
- B Device Details
- 1 Index
NMS300 Network Management System Application
Manage Configurations and Firmware User Manual126
Back up your device configurations
You can back up the configurations of the NETGEAR devices on your network.
You can schedule configuration backup jobs for future execution on a recurrent basis for
batch operations.
Note: The application supports SSH for back-up operations of the devices.
Note: For information about backing up the application system settings, see
Back up the system settings on page 282.
The following sections describe the backup tasks:
•
Add or modify a backup profile
• Execute a backup job
• Schedule a backup job
• View the execution status of a backup job
• Remove a backup profile
Add or modify a backup profile
A backup profile defines the devices that are included in a backup job, and as an option, the
schedule with which the backup job occurs. You must create a backup profile before you can
back up the configuration of one or more devices.
To a single backup profile, you can add devices, device groups, or both.
To add a backup profile or modify an existing backup profile:
1. Open a browser and connect to the application through the static IP address of the
NMS300 server
.
For more information, see
Log in to the application on page 21.
A login window opens.
2. Enter your user name and password.
The default administrator user name is admin and the default administrator password is
also admin.
3. Click the Sign In button.
The Network Summary page displays.