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38 EPICenter Concepts and Solutions Guide
Getting Started with EPICenter
Figure 8: Uploading a Baseline Configuration File
This saves the configuration file as a baseline file in the
user/tftp/baselines
directory, named by ip
address (e.g.
10_205_1_5.txt
).
Note that you can also schedule the upload of baseline files. This feature is similar to scheduling
archival uploads, except that a baseline upload cannot be scheduled on a repeating basis. However, this
does let you schedule your baseline uploads to minimize impact on your network.
When a baseline file has been saved for a device, the Device display indicates which configuration file is
the one that became the baseline file (as shown in Figure 9). Subsequent configuration uploads are
compared to the baseline, and if changes were made that fact is noted.
Further, if you schedule regular archive configuration file uploads, EPICenter compares the
newly-archived file against the baseline file to detect if there are difference, and creates a report that
specifies exactly what those differences are, and also inspects the devices Syslog file to attempt to
identify entries that could explain or be related to the configuration changes detected in the new
archived configuration file.
See “Automatic Differences Detection” on page 95 for an example of report created when differences are
detected.