Below are the necessary steps needed to backup the configuration on a router or switch using the NetMRI appliance. Steps 1-4 are the starting point for executing any jobs via the configuration manger, other scripts might require a few more steps.

1. Log into the NetMRI appliance http://netmri
2. Click on the “Configuration Management” tab

   

3. Click on the “Job Management” sub tab on the left à then select the scripts tab and the script to backup the IOS config is called “Backup IOS Config”.

   

4. Before you execute this you have to ask yourself if you want to create a schedule job or if you want to just run the job right now. If you chose to run the job right now follow the below steps:
   1. Click on the “Run Now” action
   2. Select the devices that you would like backup by either choosing the group “routing/switching” under the “Device Groups” tab or select the one or multiple devices from the “Devices” tab the select the “Run” button.

      Option A
      

   Option B

Click on the device tab and select the devices manually that would like the script to target.

1. Lastly enter the name/IP Address of the TFTP server that you would like to backup the config files too, and press OK.

   

   Click OK to proceed!

2. Once the job has been completed you will either see a red X in the status tab and the message error indicating that one or more jobs has not been processed.

   

Just click on the job name ,then the details tab and look for the device that has the error. You can then click on the “error” link for further details as to why the job did not run on the device in question.

Next click on the status log tab to  look at the detail error, in this case the NetMRI appliance was unable to connect to SW02 via SSH since this switch does not support SSH.

Note:

You can also schedule these jobs instead of running then manually, have fun and remember to backup your configs, cause you never know when you will need them.