ISE and creating a backup of it's configurations

[adam.james]

Hi all. 

Like cisco routers and switches they have the ability to locally store their IOS images on their own nvram. Is this same option available on the Cisco ISE - 3655-K9?

The reason why I'm asking this is because I'm having issues with local servers being reachable from the ISE to the repositories I'm setting up, and wondering if there is a quicker way of taking these backups to enable me to upgrade to the latest ISO 3.1. 

If anyone can advise it would be appreciated. 

Thanks

Adam

[Rob Ingram · Accepted solution]

@adam.james you can create a local repository on ISE and backup to it, but I'd recommended backing up to remote device rather than ISE it self.

Reference documents:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/identity-services-engine-software/215348-how-to-configure-repository-on-identity.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/identity-services-engine/215355-how-to-take-configuration-and-operation.html

[adam.james]

Hi Rob, 

Thanks for the reply. 

At the moment my ISE devices have no config on them, their pretty much straight out the box. So if you know how to back to the ISE device itself that would be great. Does the word 'DISC' mean local? if so what would be the path?

Sorry, but I'm very new to these devices.

Thanks

Adam

[Rob Ingram]

@adam.james yes DISK means the local disk. If you setup the repository via GUI just define the path as /

IMO if it's got no configuration, I'd personally deploy a new image from scratch rather than upgrade.

[adam.james]

Hi Rob. 

Ok great, thanks for clarifying that. 

My next step was to start again from scratch if I couldn't work that out. I'll have a read up on that option now. 

thanks for your pointers. 

Adam