Acknowledge the Out-of-Band Configuration

Note

Some commands, when set to a default setting, don't appear in the command output. However, the non-default command will show on either side as green (added) or red (removed). For example, if you add no shutdown to an interface in recovery-config mode, the shutdown command will show in red on the left Last-deployed configuration pane while no shutdown will not appear in the right Configuration on device pane. In this case, although the default setting for an interface is shutdown , the parser considers no shutdown to be the default and doesn't show it.

You can open the dialog box from multiple locations. For example, on the Devices > Device Management page, your device will have a warning. Click View Details.

Or, from the Devices > Device Management > Device > Health tile, you can click View Details.

Note	If the out-of-band notification hasn't yet reached the management center, you can check for changes using the Out of Band Status > Check Latest Status link.

Or you can bring up the dialog box at any time to review the changes.

If you want to prevent an accidental deployment until after you've made your configuration changes, you can instead make the changes and then come back and click Acknowledge.

You can still revisit the dialog box to review the changes you need to make until you deploy. The status on the Device page changes to show you have acknowledged the out-of-band configuration:

You'll need to match the configuration CLI to management center screens; there aren't links from the CLI changes directly to screens.

If you don't want to keep your changes, you can simply deploy and overwrite the device configuration. You should make all necessary changes to maintain the management connection as well as any other changes you want to keep. For example, if you changed the IP address at the CLI, you need to go to the Interfaces page, edit the interface, and set that IP address to match:

There is no checking mechanism that you made the same change; you could set the IP address differently if you want.

After you deploy, you can view the configuration differential—whether you made the changes or not—on the System () > Monitoring > Audit page. Check for the subsystem called Device > Device Management > Out of band changes.