Catalyst 9300 Monitoring - Config Backups

[lloydz]

I'm in the process of onboarding our Catalyst 9300 switches into our dashboard for monitoring mode.  Will this process provide me a copy of the running configuration that I could use in the event of a switch replacement, or should I continue with our local configuration backup methods?

[jimmyt234]

There is config history 😊

Configuration History - Cisco Meraki Documentation

[lloydz]

Interesting - on the first test switch I've added, I just have "Summary, Ports, Location, and Tools" as menu options across the top.  It has been onboarded for about 30 minutes - maybe I need to wait longer?

[lloydz]

On second glance, I may have bigger issues.  When onboarding, the pre-checks all completed successfully from the onboarding application and the switch showed up in the dashboard, but after about 15 minutes I'm now getting an alert from the dashboard indicating the device is running an unsupported firmware version and telemetry isn't being received. I'm able to run a remote terminal session with command outputs, so connectivity doesn't seem to be an issue. The Catalyst is running IOS XE 17.15.2.  I think I'll open a case.

[jimmyt234]

Sounds like it! I have some running IOS-XE 17.12.3 and they work with the config history.

[lloydz]

Well, it appears these switches are not supported out of the box according to Meraki documentation.  We just received them this week with this IOS version preinstalled, so unless I reflash them to an IOS version several revisions behind (17.12), we will be unsupported.  Of course, we've already deployed over 20 of these in production.  What a bummer.