Displaying Configuration History

When you commit a configuration, the routing platform saves the current operational version and the previous 49 versions of committed configurations. To manage these configuration files with the J-Web interface, select Maintain>Config Management>History. The main pane displays Database Information and Configuration History (see Figure 22).

Table 31 summarizes the contents of the display.

The configuration history display allows you to perform the following operations:

View a configuration.
Compare two configurations.
Download a configuration file to your local system.
Roll back the configuration to any of the previous versions stored on the routing platform.

Figure 22: Configuration Database and History Page

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Table 31: J-Web Configuration History Summary

Field	Description
Number	Version of the configuration file.
Date/Time	Date and time the configuration was committed.
User	Name of the user who committed the configuration.
Client	Method by which the configuration was committed: cli—A user entered a Junos OS CLI command. junoscript—A JUNOScript client performed the operation. Commit operations performed by users through the J-Web interface are identified in this way. snmp—An SNMP set request started the operation. button—The CONFIG button on the router was pressed to commit the rescue configuration (if set) or to clear all configurations except the factory configuration. autoinstall—Autoinstallation was performed. other—Another method was used to commit the configuration.
Comment	Comment.
Log Message	Method used to edit the configuration: Imported via paste—Configuration was edited and loaded with the Configuration>View and Edit>Edit Configuration Text option. For more information, see CLI Editor (Edit Configuration Text). Imported upload [filename]—Configuration was uploaded with the Configuration>View and Edit>Upload Configuration File option. For more information, see Upload Configuration File. Modified via quick-configuration—Configuration was modified with the J-Web Quick Configuration tool specified by quick-configuration. Rolled back via user-interface—Configuration was rolled back to a previous version through the user interface specified by user-interface, which can be Web Interface or CLI. For more information, see Loading a Previous Configuration File.
Action	Action to perform with the configuration file. The action can be Download or Rollback. For more information, seeDownloading a Configuration File and Loading a Previous Configuration File.

For more information about saved versions of configuration files, see Editing and Committing a Junos Configuration.