Configure Scheduled Configuration Backups

This task explains how to establish an automatic, timed backup of your configuration and send it to a push-receiver.

Push receiver configurations establish an SFTP server to which the ESBC pushes records. You can configure the ESBC to include a copy of your backup configuration file as one of these records.

To configure scheduled configuration backups:

1. Access the schedule-backup configuration element.

   ORACLE# configure terminal
   ORACLE(configure)# system
   ORACLE(system)# system-config 
   ORACLE(system-config)# select
   ORACLE(system-config)# schedule-backup 
   ORACLE(schedule-backup)# 

2. admin-state—Enable or disable this configuration backup feature. This parameter is disabled by default.
   • disabled(default)
   • enabled
3. config-backup—Access the config-backup sub-element.

   ORACLE(config-backup)#

4. interval—Specify the interval the system uses to determine when to push backups. This parameter is weekly by default.
   • daily—24 hours from last backup
   • weekly—7 days from last backup
   • monthly—30 days from last backup
5. retry-interval—Specify the interval the system uses to determine when it tries to resend a configuration backup after an attempt fails. The range is 5 to 30 minutes and the default is 5 minutes.
6. retry-count—Specify the maximum number of times the system tries to resend a configuration backup after prior attempts fail. The range is 2 to 10 retries and the default is 5 retries.
7. push-failure-alarm—Enable or disable the generation of alarms and traps in case of any push-receiver failures. This alarm is of severity type Warning.
   • enabled (default)
   • disabled
8. push-receiver—Access the push-receiver sub-element.

   ORACLE(push-receiver)#

9. address—Enter the IPv4 address of the push receiver to which you want records sent.
   • Default: 0.0.0.0
10. username—Enter the username that the ESBC uses when it sends records to this server.
11. password—Enter the password that the ESBC uses when it sends records to this server.

    ORACLE(push-receiver)# password 
    Enter password: 
    Retype password: 
    Password updated
    ORACLE(push-receiver)#

12. data-store—Enter the absolute path on the remote server where you want the collected data placed.
13. protocol—Enter the protocol used to push configuration data to the server.
    • sftp (default)

    Note:

    For SFTP to work, you must import the public key of the SFTP server into the ESBC. See the "Manage SSH Keys" in the ACLI Configuration Guide.