User Guide

Configuration Manager allows users to manage devices and configurations on their networks. The application can view devices, manage groups of devices, backup devices, compare backup configurations, and more features including Golden Configuration tree management, compliance reporting, and remediation.

Based on the type of entity the user needs to view or manipulate, there are three main pages to the application.

• Devices
• Device Groups
• Device Backups

Devices

Devices are available from any southbound system registered through the Itential Automation Platform (IAP). This includes the option of one or more instances of NSO and Itential Ansible Manager. At this time, Configuration Manager reads and analyzes the devices; however, in future integrations, device turn-up and device remediation will be possible.

On the Devices home page, a grid view of device cards renders multiple details for each device available from southbound systems. The cards can be filtered and sorted by various fields and includes pagination to mitigate slow load times for large collections of devices.

Each device card can also be selected and edited on its own Device Details page.

Device Details

On the Details page of a device, helpful information is displayed in four cards arranged horizontally at the top and in one larger sized card with tabs displayed beneath. More cards will be made available in the future to provide further quick actions. Additional tabs will also be added to the larger card to allow for the display of more advanced features.

Device Groups

Similar to other constructs used for inventory management and orchestration, device groups in the Itential Automation Platform are a collective association of device IDs. Other API calls can use these groups to manage various workflow operations based on a user defined association.

On the Device Groups page, the card view is similar to the Devices page with a layout of cards showing the current groups. Of note, there is an empty Create Group card that allows you to create a new group with a custom name. Click the Add button to open an inline form. Once a new device group is created, it is added to a searchable list. Last, since all device groups are editable, they can be selected for batch actions.

Note: Currently, the only batch action available is deletion.

Editing Device Group Details

When editing a device group, the user can update not only the name, but the description and a filterable list of devices available or attached to the group.

Device Backups

Device backups are similar to existing backups in other Itential applications. They provide a reference point of a device's configuration at a given point in time. On the Backups home page, the card layout shows all the backups that have been created for various devices on the platform. The details on each backup are unique to each device. Each backup card will show information that further delineates the history of the device's configuration. From this page, filtering, sorting, pagination and batch deletion actions are available also.

Editing a Device Backup

The Details page of a specific device backup shows information in two cards arranged at the top and one larger sized card at the bottom.