Configuration Managemеnt

Configuration Management provides a powerful set of features for managing, normalizing, and editing configurations for all devices managed by NetMRI, including the following:

• Config Archive: This tab lists all devices in each Device Group, and is the front end for browsing, viewing, and editing configuration files from any active device, or comparing between two devices in the managed network. Configuration files drive the operation of higher-end routers, switches, firewalls, and other device types across the network. You can read, edit, and compare similar-device configuration files across the network.

•  Config Search: This tab lets you search devices in the network for a particular configuration string, an IP address, or other specific device specification such as a MAC address, device model, or other phenomena, using many different types of search criteria and even regular expressions.

• Job Management: This tab enables the creation, scheduling, approval, and execution of Job Management scripts in the Perl and CCS languages, and the definition of custom issues to extend the library of issue types that NetMRI uses for reporting and monitoring adverse events in the network. Job Management is used to automate common network administration tasks, and efficiently enforce normalization and best-practices configuration across the managed network. A critical feature set classified under Job Management is the Automation Change Manager (ACM), which leverages NetMRI's scripting capabilities to support a set of Infoblox NIOS network automation utilities. Subcategories of Job Management include the following tabbed pages:

  • Scripts: This tab lists all scripts in the NetMRI system.

  • Library: This tab provides a location for CCS and Perl subroutines that can be called by other scripts.

  • Config Templates: This tab, a location for templates containing configuration snippets and variables for easier job automation.

  • Lists: This tab, a second library page, for lists of spreadsheet-type list data for use in automation jobs.

  • Scheduled Jobs: This tab shows the current list of scheduled automation jobs.

  • Triggered Jobs: This tab shows the current list of recently triggered jobs.

  • Job History: This tab shows the complete history of automation jobs run in the NetMRI managed network.

  • Custom Issues: This tab allows the definition of custom issues based on job execution.

• Policy Design Center: This allows you to create rules and policies, and deploy policies on the network. Policy is a tool for ensuring all devices in the network meet minimum standards of readiness and security. Rules are the building blocks that form a policy. You deploy policies against devices and groups of devices. See Policy Design Center for more details.

  • Summary: This tab provides features for the quick creation of Policy Rules, building a new Policy, or scheduling and deploying Policies.

  • Rules: This tab allows you to explore the entire library of Policy Rules and provides the ability to create, edit, copy, import, and export Rules.

  • Policies: This tab provides general Policy management features, such as editing, printing, and import/export, and test Policies against devices, configuration files, and configuration templates.

  • Policy Deployment: This tab allows admins to enable policies against individual devices or device groups.