To establish CLI device credentials at the device level, complete the following:
- On the Network Explorer page, do one of the following:
- Click Inventory > Devices and then click a device IP.
- Click Discovery and then click a device IP. The chosen device's Device Viewer appears.
- In the Device Viewer, click Settings and Status > CLI Credentials to open the page for creating CLI login credentials.
- Click Edit.
- For CLI Credentials, you may provide up to three different login tuples: for SSH, Telnet, and for the HTTP protocol. Enter the username and password for any or all three as required for the selected device. For SSH and Telnet, you also provide a port number. You can use the default or custom ports.
- Provide the Enable Password.
- Click Test to try out To test the new credential, click Test. You can also click Show Password to verify that you have entered the correct values.
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Test Completed
7. Click Save. Saved credentials can be deleted by clicking the Delete icon in the table row.
The lower panel is a history that lists all credentials attempted during the last credential guessing attempt for the given device. This data resets each time credentials are guessed for a device. The table indicates the time of each guess and the result of that attempt. If a device is manually configured with a credential, NetMRI updates the history once it attempts to use that credential for data collection.
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A Get Configs button appears in on the CLI Credentials page of the Device Viewer to fetch the current configuration files from the device. After clicking Get Configs, the following notification appears in the Device Viewer: "A request to retrieve the configs has been dispatched. If a change from the previous retrieval is detected, the new configs will appear shortly. Otherwise, the Last Collected timestamps of the previous retrieval are updated to reflect the current time, indicating that no change was detected."
This feature can be verified on the the Configuration Management > Archive tab page by clicking the table row for the device. This brings up the Config Explorer for the selected device. A Get Config button is also provided in this location.