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94 EPICenter Concepts and Solutions Guide
Managing Network Device Configurations and Updates
Figure 43: Scheduling archival configuration file uploads
You can schedule daily or weekly uploads, and specify the time of day (and day of the week) at which
they should be done. This lets you schedule uploads at times when it will have the least impact on your
network load. You can create different schedules for each individual device, if that suits your needs.
Archival uploads are saved in subdirectories by the year, month and day that the archive was done.
The file is named based on the device IP address and timestamp, and is in ASCII text format.
You can manage your historical archives by limiting the number of archived configurations EPICenter
saves, especially if you have a large number of devices on your network or choose to do frequent
archiving, You can limit either the number of files EPICenter saves for each device, or limit the length of
time EPICenter keeps a file. In either case, when the limit is reached, the oldest files are deleted first.
If you don’t want to schedule all your devices individually, you can set the Global Schedule, which will
then archive all other devices (those not individually scheduled) based on the global schedule.
To upload configuration files from your Extreme Networks devices to EPICenter on a one-time basis,
click the
Upload button in the Configuration Manager toolbar (or select Upload from the Config menu).
You can also initiate an upload for an individual device by selecting the device in the Component Tree
and selecting
Upload from the right-click pop-up menu. When you upload a device configuration on
demand, you can save it at a location and under a filename of your choice, rather than being restricted
to the default naming scheme that EPICenter uses.
Baseline Configurations
By creating baseline configuration files for your devices, you can establish a set of configurations that
act as a reference configuration for the device. You can use the baseline configuration as a “known