Cisco Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Weißbuch
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Comparing Configuration
You can use Cisco Prime Infrastructure to view and compare device configurations. To compare configurations,
navigate to Inventory > Device Management >Network Devices > Select the device. Select Configuration
Archive tab. Select the version of the configuration to compare and select the compare options. Now you can see
the color-coded configuration differences instantly as shown in Figure 28.
Figure 28. Configuration Archive
Image Management
Upgrading software image of the devices to the latest version can be error prone and time consuming, if manual
process is followed. Cisco Prime Infrastructure simplifies the deployment of software images to one or many
devices at the same time by providing plan, schedule, download, and monitor software image update jobs. Cisco
Prime Infrastructure provides software image details, lists recommended software images, and deletes software
images.
Setting Up Image Management
Cisco Prime Infrastructure provides number of knobs that can be accessed from Administration > Settings
>System Settings> Inventory>Image Management. These include team shared cisco.com username/password,
job failure handling options, image and configuration protocol options, and so on. You are recommended to set it
up initially so that preferred preferences are applied when distributing images on managed devices.
Figure 29. Image Management