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Archiving Configuration Settings
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Address and Time elements are required, but you can change the order, and include other
elements as well as adding text of your own. See
“Changing the Configuration Filename Format”
on page 151 .
5 Click Apply to start the upload process.
Changing the Configuration Filename Format
To change the filename format:
1 Click the Configure Upload Filename Format button to open the Configure Upload Filename
Format window.
2 Create your filename format in the field provided as follows:
●
Type a space to invoke a list of elements you can include. These include the system name
(SysName), IP address, Date, and Time. The default is
<IPAddress>_<Time>
, which you can
specify as a unit by choosing DEFAULT from the list. You can select these in any order, but you
must include both the IP address and the Time somewhere in your filename format. Each
element you choose is separated from its neighboring elements by an underscore.
●
You can include text of your own in the filename format; it will then appear in every file name
EPICenter creates (until you change the format).
3 Click Apply when you have finished.
When you change the filename format, it becomes the default format for any upload operations you
perform within this Configuration Upload session—when you close the Configuration Upload window,
the filename format reverts to the default.
You can change the default configuration filename format from within the Admin applet, Server
Properties, under the Other category. See
“Server Properties Administration” on page 362 for more
information.
Archiving Configuration Settings
You can schedule the uploading (archiving) of configuration information so that it is done automatically,
either once a day or once a week. You can set up a global archive schedule, as well as schedule
archiving for individual devices. All new devices added to the EPICenter database use the global
upload schedule, if one has been set up, until they are configured with an individual archiving
schedule. By default, no global archiving is scheduled.
When a scheduled upload occurs for a device, if a baseline configuration has been designated for the
device, EPICenter automatically compares the new archive configuration with the baseline
configuration, and sends an email report if differences are found. This requires configuration of the
email notification feature (see
“Configuring Email Notification of Archive/Baseline Differences” on
page 157 ). These reports are saved in the
< tftp_root >\configs\reports
directory.
Since archiving files on a regular basis for a large number of devices could eventually use too much
disk space., you can set limits on the number of archive files that are kept, or set a time limit for how
long they are kept.
In addition, in the Admin applet you can specify whether the device configurations are always
uploaded at the scheduled archive time, or are uploaded only when the device configuration has
changed. The default is to perform a scheduled upload only when the configuration has changed. See