Displaying Configuration History

When you commit a configuration, the device 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.

Table 204 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 device.

Table 204: 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 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 Configure>CLI Tools>CLI Editor option. Imported upload [filename]—Configuration was uploaded with the Configuration>View and Edit>Upload Configuration File option. 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.
Action	Action to perform with the configuration file. The action can be Download or Rollback.

For more information about saved versions of configuration files, see the Junos OS System Basics Configuration Guide.