We recently installed NCM primarily for the purpose of downloading and backing up the config files for our Cisco devices.
We like the compare feature, but the widget/device in the dashboard that informed us that nearly 100 percent of our startup and running configs contained discrepancies was a little misleading.
Especially when we delved in and started looking at the differences. Many times, two lines would simply be reversed. Line 3 was blank in the running config, but contained a configuration line in line 4. But, in the startup config, line 4 was blank and line 3 contained the contents of line 4 in the running configs.
Lines containing keys, pre-shared keys and cryptochecksums also showed as different, even though in reality one is simply showing a string of **** while the startup config contained the actual password.
Is there a way to program the comparison process to ignore such differences?