Lab Objective:
The focus of this lab is to understand Cisco IOS Configuration Archive implementation and configuration in Cisco IOS routers. Additional technologies include KRON.
Lab Topology:
This lab requires only a single router running, at a minimum, Cisco IOS Software 12.4 Mainline. The router should have at least one Ethernet interface. The primary purpose of this lab is to reinforce configuration knowledge of the stated chapter.
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IMPORTANT NOTE If you have multiple devices and servers / hosts in your home lab and you would like to test solutions for topics such as Syslog, SNMP and NetFlow by setting up host and viewing charts or logging information, for example, please feel free to do so. While these labs include logging to ‘supposed’ hosts, there are no SNMP or Syslog servers in the http://www.howtonetwork.net racks and so you will not be able to test the solutions in those racks. If you only have a single router, you can bring up the Ethernet interface by implementing the following configuration: ! |
Task 1
Configure Cisco IOS Configuration Archive feature on the router. The router should store the archived configuration on an FTP server with the IP address 150.1.1.254. The router should include its hostname and timestamp in the configuration archive. The FTP server allows connections from user ‘secureconfig’ with a password of ‘h2n3tw0rk’. In addition to this, enables automatic generation of a configuration backup prior to a write memory or copy running-config startup-config operation; however, scheduled backups should occur every 8 hours. Verify your configuration using the appropriate commands.
Task 2
To provide some redundancy to the IOS Configuration Archive feature, configure a Cisco IOS Command Scheduler (KRON) policy that will run the archive config command every 24 hours. Verify your configuration using the appropriate commands.
Task 3
In the future, management would like QoS implemented. In the interim, they are considering implementing NBAR to determine what types of traffic and how much is received from the LAN. The network team has a daily 10AM meeting. Users typically come into the office between 8 and 8:30 AM. It is as this time that there will be a lot of traffic coming into the router from the LAN. To ensure that this data is not lost, configure the router to redirect to TFTP server 150.1.1.254 the output of the show ip nbar protocol discovery command every day at 8:30AM using KRON. Verify your configuration using the appropriate commands.