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Hello, 

I read the user guide for the configuration manager, and have some
questions.

> What devices are supported, or is there a list of supported devices?
> We have Cisco, Enterasys, Extreme and HP switches and router.

Mainly Cisco, Juniper and Enterasys devices are supported as of 8.1SP2. 
There is quite a huge list of supported devices sorted by OID in the 
Network Configuration Manager documentation PDF on the doc disk.

> What happens, when a new device type will add to spectrum?

See below...

> Will it saved in the next saving cycle or must I configure something
> for doing this?

As soon as a device is prepared for config management (see below), 
SPECTRUM listens to config mgmt traps - as far as they are configured on 
the device - and polls the config. As long as you have a Global Sync Task 
configured, the device will also be polled in the cylce configured there.

There is also the option to (globally) configure an initial config capture 
as soon as a new device is modelled - as long as it gets inserted in to 
the Global Collections mentioned below. Be aware that you have to use the 
R/W community string in most cases since NCM uses SNMP to instruct the 
device (at least with Cisco) to upload its config.

> Does the configration manager save all devices which are monitored
> by spectrum, or must I create a list of the devices which should
> be saved?

There are Global Collections for Cisco IOS devices, Cisco CatOS devices, 
Juniper devices etc. - automatically updated as soon as a device is 
modelled. You can also define your own Global Collections and configure 
scripts or ways of capture for this particular group of devices.

> Where are the configurations saved? I mean are they in a file with
> the device name, or is the config saved in the database?

When I first evaluated NCM, I must say I wasn't surprised to see that the 
config files are models in SPECTRUM, associated with the device model. The 
actual config is octetstring'ed in one attribute. Try a show model in CLI 
to find out.

> How is the saving triggered on the network devices (by snmp, telnet
> or ssh)?

Many configurable ways. I don't wanna say RTFM, but the doc is quite clear 
in that manner, compared to other SPECTRUM docs ;-)

Best Regards

Berthold
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