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File Management | File Servers
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File Management
In addition to letting you back up and restore configuration files, and deploy firmware updates to
devices, this menu manages viewing and comparing configuration files backed up from the selected
devices. Details about these capabilities appear below.
Compare and View options have the following limitations:
• If you select a config file that is a single file, without any historical precedent, no comparison
option appears on the menu since the selected version does not have a prior version.
• If you select a single config file of version two or higher, comparison is an option. When
selected, OpenManage Network Manager automatically compares against the prior version for
that device and file name.
• If you select two config files of any version, compares is between those two versions.
• If you select three or more config files, no comparison option appears.
• The
View
option appears for a single selection only, and only lets you view files that are not
binary.
Tip
The icon to the left of the
File Name
listed in the portlet lets you know whether a configuration file is
binary ( ), and not viewable, or text ( ), and viewable.
The file management menu contains the following:
View / Edit — This opens a panel
displaying the configuration file’s
contents. Use the browser’s Find
function (as demonstrated on the right)
to locate specific text within the Config
File. You can also select and copy text
within this screen.
Notice that
Selected Config and Live
Config (current) version and storage
dates appear at the top of this screen.
When you perform a backup that differs
from the config that is
Labeled Current
,
that label changes to Live Config if
changes are detected.
Selected Config appears when you open
this screen from the Configuration Files
Portlet, but Live Config / Current
Config appear side-by-side when you
open this screen from the Managed
Resources portlet.