Configuring Routers Running IOS Software Releases 12.1 and 12.2
Security Manager provides limited support for routers running Cisco IOS Software Releases 12.1 and 12.2 (with the exception of the ASR 1000 Series, which supports more features). You can configure the following policies on these routers:
All other policies require Cisco IOS Software Release 12.3 or higher. For more information about supported devices, see Supported Devices and Software Versions for Cisco Security Manager.
Discovering Router Policies
You can discover the configurations of your Cisco IOS routers and import these configurations as policies into Security Manager. This makes it possible to add existing devices and manage them with Security Manager without having to manually configure each device policy by policy. For more information, see Adding Devices to the Device Inventory.
You can discover all Cisco IOS commands that can be configured with Security Manager. Discovery ignores unsupported commands, which means that they are left intact on the device even after subsequent deployments. Additionally, in cases where Security Manager can discover the command, but not all the subcommands and keywords related to that command, the unsupported elements are ignored and left intact on the device.
You can also rediscover the configurations of devices that you are already managing with Security Manager at any time. Be aware, however, that performing rediscovery overwrites the policies that you have defined in Security Manager, and is therefore not generally recommended. For more information, see Discovering Policies on Devices Already in Security Manager.
Note We recommend that you perform deployment immediately after you discover the policies on a Cisco IOS router, before you make any changes to policies or unassign policies from the device. Otherwise, the changes that you configure in Security Manager might not be deployed to the device.
Note If a policy that is not configured in Security Manager was configured on the device using an out-of-band method (such as the CLI) between the time of the first discovery and rediscovery, we recommend that you perform deployment immediately after rediscovery.
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