User`s guide

Comparing Two Configurations
Creating and Managing Configurations
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Enterprise Configuration Manager
User’s Guide
If your configuration includes attributes that are unique to the device — an IP
address, for example — you should make the configuration device specific.
How To Tell a Configuration Type
You can see the different type of configurations by changing the view mode of
the window. The title bar in the Main and Configurations windows indicates
whether the configurations in that window are shared or device specific.
By Default a Cisco Host Configuration is Device Specific
There is only one type of configuration that is device specific by default. It is
the configuration — captured with a template — that includes a Cisco host
configuration.
Configurations that are not device specific appear in the configurations lists of
all devices of the same type. Because of this, you can use these configurations
to verify and load other devices of the same type. Configurations that are
device specific appear only in the Device Specific windows of the one device.
To Change a Configuration Type
To make a configuration device specific or change the device specific status of a
configuration, follow these steps:
1. In the Configurations window, select the configuration name.
2. Click on the Move to Specific Device button or option.
A confirmation box appears.
3. Click on Yes in the confirmation box.
Notice, that you did not have to save the configuration.
Comparing Two Configurations
The Compare operation, unlike the other operations in this chapter, is
performed in the ECM Main window. ECM is designed this way so that users
with restricted privileges (ECM, 3 - 9) can compare configurations.
To compare two configurations, follow these steps:
1. Open the ECM Main window.
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NOTE
Although it is easy to make a device specific configuration shared, you
should be very careful if you do so. Remember that you are making the
configuration available to all other devices of that device type. If a user
loads this configuration to the wrong device, the device’s configuration
could be damaged.