Configuration Management

Configuration Management (formerly known as "WhatsConfigured") enables automated management, compliance, and periodic auditing of device configurations —the most critical aspect of your network and application infrastructure. Leveraging templates, archives, and automated configuration management actions provided by CM libraries and tracked by WhatsUp Gold dashboards, reporting, and logging yields better network performance, frees valuable time, and provides transparency to all stakeholders.

WhatsUp Gold Configuration Management framework and toolboxes enable you to:

• Apply policies and alerts that minimize both risk and possibility of misconfiguration.
• Ensure optimal performance and utilization of application, storage, and compute resources.
• Reduce risk of service interruptions and outages.
• Schedule and get 'on-demand' reporting, which reveals critical facets of device configuration and policy compliance.
• Mitigate the impact of incidents applying actions for incident recovery.

WhatsUp Gold Configuration Management provides the following:

• Archive Management. Search, browse, and manage device configurations centrally.
• CLI Settings Library. Add, store, reuse CLI session settings.
• Task Script Library. Build a library of frequently used code snippets.
• Task Library. Schedule and run scripts as tasks on managed devices.
• Configuration Policy Library. Bundle CM tasks to implement a specific policy.
• Configuration Template Library. Align configurations with templates and percent variables.
• VLAN Manager. Manage and standardize virtual LAN configurations.

In This Section CM System Overview Using Task Scripts Using Tasks Using Device Properties Using Policies Using Configuration Management templates Leveraging and Customizing System Scripts Managing CLI and Remote Shell Settings Archive Search Using the Configuration Management VLAN Manager Setting Log Expiration