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Using Job Manager
Job Manager tracks the status of major administrative tasks, such as importing or updating
a device. After you import a device, view the report for the import task to ensure that the
management system imported the device configuration as you expected. To track the
status of the imported Secure Access devices in NSM, from the left pane, click
Administer
and select Job Manager .
NOTE: Job Manager configuration summaries and job information details do
not display passwords in the list of CLI commands for administrators who
do not have the assigned activity "View Device Passwords." By default, only
the super administrator has this assigned activity.
Job Manager also tracks the status of configuration summaries, described in the Using
Configuration Summaries section.
Using Configuration Summaries
NSM provides three configuration summaries to help you manage device configurations
and prevent accidental misconfigurations. Use configuration summaries after you import
a device to ensure that the management system imported the physical device
configuration as you expected.
Configuration summaries help with ongoing device maintenance, particularly for devices
on which a local device administrator has been troubleshooting using CLI commands or
the Web UI. Because the device object configuration in the NSM UI can overwrite the
physical device configuration, you should always confirm the commands that are sent
to the device.
The three configuration summaries that help you to manage device configurations are:
•
Configuration Summary
• Delta Configuration Summary
• Running Configuration Summary
Configuration Summary
A configuration summary shows you the exact CLI commands that will be sent to the
managed device during the next device update. To get a configuration summary in NSM,
from the Devices menu, click
Configuration and select Summarize Config . The Summarize
Config dialog box appears. You see a list of security devices to which you have access.
Select the device you just imported and click
OK . NSM analyzes the UI device object
configuration and generates a summary report that lists the CLI commands or XML
messages to send to the physical device during the next device update.
For a just-imported device, the configuration summary report displays the device
configuration that matches the configuration currently running on the physical device.
Delta Configuration Summary
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