Cisco lms - config collection

Question

Hi, i'm looking for a way to collect config's from specific devices periodically, is this possible?
for example, collect configs from firewalls everyday at midnight , and collect routers config once a week.
firewalls: (about 3 devices, config changes every day)
routers: (about 800 devices, rarely change the config)
the only config collection schedule i have found so far is too simple:
admin > collection settings > config > config collecion settings > periodic collection
second question, is it possible for cisco lms to send via e-mail the diff of the config pulled from devices? i mean the specific commands that have appeared in the new configuration file.
regards, ignacio

Answer 1

Unfortunately, LMS syslog mechanism is very minimalistic and doesn't have a lot of options to it.
However, the feature you're requesting is not very much LMS dependent. As, Ciscoworks depends on the kind of syslog message it receives from device, based on it, it captures some characters to send a notification as automated actions.
So usually it is the device which won't send a lot of information on what changes was done by which user in normal IOS syslog messages.
But, to certain extent, you can try to configure you device for Configuration-Change logger to receive details on what changes were made by users and check it on the syslog report, or configure AA on it for all or important devices.
You can enable a configuration logger to keep track of configuration changes made with the command-line interface (CLI). When you enter the logging enable configuration-change logger configuration command, the log records the session, the user, and the command that was entered to change the configuration. You can configure the size of the configuration log from 1 to 1000 entries (the default is 100). You can clear the log at any time by entering the no logging enable command followed by the logging enable command to disable and reenable logging.
Use the:
show archive log config {all | number [end-number] | user username [session number] number [end-number] | statistics} [provisioning] privileged EXEC command to display the complete configuration log or the log for specified parameters.
This example shows how to enable the configuration-change logger and to set the number of entries in the log to 500:
 Switch(config)# archive 
 Switch(config-archive)# log config
 Switch(config-archive-log-cfg)# logging enable
 Switch(config-archive-log-cfg)# logging size 500
 Switch(config-archive-log-cfg)# end
So, in all, it depends on the device and the kind of syslogs it send for LMS to react on it.
-Thanks
Vinod
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