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- "Parameters" - device name and description, its location and the SNMP settings for polling.
- "Status" - device operation parameters.
- "Maintenance" - in this section, a network engineer can manage the device configuration, updating its software and groups.
- "About" - information about model, serial number and device family. Here will be also displayed the current status of NEXT license.
Configuration management
For each device added to NEXT, configuration is loaded. If the device configuration has been changed, it will be reloaded, the previous configuration will not be deleted. Thus, the monitoring system always stores both the current device configuration and its previous versions.
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- "Version from" - configuration date and time:
- The date and time of its upload to the monitoring system.
- For the draft the date and time of the last change.
- "Source" - configuration source, the following values are possible:
- EMS - configuration created by NEXT.
- Device - configuration received from device. Changes were made directly on the device, the monitoring system has detected it and downloaded the updated configuration.
- "Status" - current configuration status, the following values are possible:
- Draft - draft configuration stored in NEXT and not applied to the device.
- Success - the configuration was successfully downloaded from the device or applied on it.
- Error - configuration applying on device failed.
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At the set time, the configuration will be downloaded to the device. After successful validation, the configuration will be applied and the device will reboot. After rebooting the device, NEXT will re-poll it and perform a configuration check. If it was applied correctly, then the job will be marked as completed successfully. Otherwise, the job will fail.
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