Deploying software from the configuration center – H3C Technologies H3C Intelligent Management Center User Manual

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Deploying software from the Configuration Center

You can launch the Deployment Guide from the Configuration Center for deploying software to selected

devices. The Deploy Software button on the Configuration Management page serves as a link that
navigates you to the Deployment Guide for deploying software to the selected devices.
To use this feature, first click the checkbox to the left of the devices you want to deploy software to.

Click Deploy Software to begin the deployment process for the selected devices. For more information

about deploying software by using the Deployment Guide, see "

Deploying configurations and software

by using IMC deployment guide

."

Deploying configurations from the Configuration Center

You can launch the Deployment Guide from the Configuration Center for deploying configurations to

selected devices. The Deploy Configuration button on the Configuration Management page serves as a

link that navigates you to the Deployment Guide for deploying configurations to the selected devices.
To use this feature, click the checkbox to the left of the devices in which you want to deploy software.

Click Deploy Configuration to begin the deployment process for the selected devices. For more

information about deploying software by using the Deployment Guide, see "

Deploying configurations

and software by using IMC deployment guide

."

Backing up configurations from the Configuration Center

You can back up the configuration files for one or more devices. The Configuration Center provides you

with quick access to the backup configuration feature for one-time backups of selected devices. For

scheduled backups, see "

Managing automatic backup plans

" and "

Automatic device configuration

backups

."

The iCC component supports TFTP, FTP, and SFTP for file transfer. The default transfer mode is TFTP. The

configuration backups are stored in the \server\data\cfgbak (/server/data/cfgbak for Linux) directory

of the IMC installation path. To transfer a 32MB or larger configuration file, make sure you use FTP. For

more information about the transfer modes, see "

File transfer mode options

."

To manually backup one or more devices from the Configuration Center:

1.

Navigate to Service > Configuration Center.

a.

Click the Service tab from the tabular navigation system on the top.

b.

Do one of the following:

{

Click the Configuration Center icon located under the Resource and Configuration

Management section of the Service page.

{

Click the Configuration Center link located on the left navigation tree.

All devices that can be managed by the Configuration Center are displayed in the list in the bottom
half of the Configuration Center page.

2.

Click the checkboxes to the left of the devices for which you want to back up the configuration
file.

3.

Click Backup Configuration.

The page is updated to display the Configuration File Backup Result table. This results table displays the

result for each configuration file that was backed up. The Configuration File Backup Result table provides

descriptive information for the devices that were backed up including Device Name, Device Model, File
Type, startup or running configuration file and the Time of the backup. Also included in this table are the

results of each configuration file backup. The Result field contains information on whether or not the

backup of configuration files for each device succeeded or failed.

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