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Switch Configuration Backup and Restore. Reference Dell Knowledge Article number 198325. This video was created to: Demonstrate how to back up switch and logical fabric configurations.
You can back up configurations on one or more switches or entire fabrics on a daily or weekly basis or on demand. A configuration backup is a backup copy of the switch configuration file.
As part of standard configuration maintenance, you should keep individual backup files for all switches in the fabric. Restore chassis, logical fabric, and switch configurations.
When you restore a configuration file, you overwrite the existing configuration file with a previously saved backup configuration file. Managing switch configuration backups.
You can view, delete, and export these backups, change the retention period, designate a backup as a baseline, and compare two configurations.
Configuration backups are stored in the "SANnav Management Portal" repository. However, you can save backups to an offline location and restore them to switches based on need.
This video presents the following: Configuration backups are triggered in several ways. Discovery. Switch or fabric discovery automatically triggers a backup for all switches in the fabric that have the correct user credentials. Event triggered.
Configuration backups are automatically triggered when a switch undergoes configuration changes and on reception of audit events in the master log.
Note that a SANnav must be registered as an SNMP trap recipient for event-triggered backup to occur. Manual. You can back up a switch configuration on demand. Scheduled.
You can set up a daily or weekly schedule when backups are to occur automatically. When to do this. A logical fabric configuration backup is triggered in the following scenarios: When a new switch is discovered. When on demand ("Backup Now").
When a backup is scheduled. When the following RASLOG events are received: Creating logical switch. Deleting logical switch. Moving ports between the logical switch. Changing base switch.
Enabling FICON on logical switch. Before you begin, you must have the "Configuration File Manager" privilege with read permission to back up a configuration on demand and with read-write permission to schedule a backup.
Before you can restore a configuration to a switch, you must have at least one previously saved configuration for that switch. You must have the "Configuration File Manager" privilege with read-write permission.
Restoring a configuration is a disruptive operation. To manage configuration backups, you must have the "Configuration File Manager" privilege with read-write permission.
The first configuration backup for a switch is automatically designated as the baseline. Click "SANnav" in the navigation bar, and then select "SAN Monitoring".
Click on "Configuration and Operations Monitoring Policy". Click "Backup". The "Switch Backup Configurations" window displays. Note: By default, the "Enable Event-triggered Backups" option is enabled.
Event-triggered backups are generated for both the "Schedule Backup" and "Backup Now" options. Click "Save". Click "OK". If you want to set up a regular schedule for backups, select "Schedule Backup" and fill out the backup schedule.
The following example shows a scheduled backup that runs every Sunday at 3:00 AM. The configuration files are kept in the repository for 30 days unless manually deleted before then.
Click on "Add". You can choose to back up individual switches or fabrics or both. In this example, we will schedule to back up switch with the name "DCX8510-4B". Click "Save". Click "OK" on the "Schedule Backup" dialog.
If you want to back up a configuration immediately, click on "Actions" and select "Backup Now". Select the switch in "Switch Backup Configurations" dialog, and click "OK". Click "Close" on the "Switch Backup Configurations" dialog.
Backup files will be saved in the repository. When the backup operation for the switches and fabrics is successful, entries such as "Switch", "Chassis", and "Logical fabric" are added to the "Repository" window as a configuration type.
Click "SANnav" in the navigation bar, and then select "SAN Monitoring". Click on "Configuration and Operations Monitoring Policy". Click "Repository" to display a list of the configuration backups.
To restore the chassis, logical fabric, and switch configurations to the same switch individually, select the chassis whose configuration you want to restore, and click "Restore".
When you restore the switch or chassis configuration to the same switch, the switch reboots, disables all ports on the switch, and also disrupts the traffic going through the switch.
Click "OK" in the confirmation window, and then click "Done" to restore the configurations. When you restore the logical fabric configuration to the same switch, the switch reboots and creates the logical switches based on the logical fabric configuration.
Click "OK" in the confirmation window, and then click "Done" to restore the configurations. To restore the switch, chassis, or logical fabric configuration of a missing switch to multiple applicable switches, select "By Other" from the "By Fabric" drop-down list.
The backup entries for all missing switches are displayed. Click the down arrow in the right-most column of a switch, and select "Restore".
This window displays the list of switches to which you can restore the configuration. It displays all applicable switches based on the type of backup entry, the switch model, and the version.
Select the switch and select "OK". This operation replaces the current configuration on the switch and reboots the switch. Click "SANnav" in the navigation bar, and then select "SAN Monitoring".
Click on "Configuration and Operations Monitoring Policy". Click "Repository" to display a list of the configuration backups. One configuration backup for each switch is designated as the baseline.
To remove a baseline from configuration, click the down arrow next to the configuration, and click "Deselect Baseline". To delete a backup after the configured retention period, 30 days or 90 days, select "Do Not Keep".
To export a configuration file, select the switch, and click on "Export". The configuration is written to a text file and downloaded to your local machine.
To delete a backup immediately, select "Delete". To compare two configurations for the same switch, select two backups and click "Compare".
You can compare backups only from the same switch and from the same type. You cannot compare backups from different switches.
Please review the following important notes. Refer to the following for more information.
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