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The Cisco IOS Resilient Configuration feature enables a router to secure and maintain a working copy of the running image and configuration so that those files can withstand malicious attempts to erase the contents of persistent storage (NVRAM and flash).
Your software release may not support all the features documented in this module. For the latest caveats and feature information, see Bug Search Tool and the release notes for your platform and software release. To find information about the features documented in this module, and to see a list of the releases in which each feature is supported, see the feature information table at the end of this module.
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A great challenge of network operators is the total downtime experienced after a router has been compromised and its operating software and configuration data erased from its persistent storage. The operator must retrieve an archived copy (if any) of the configuration and a working image to restore the router. Recovery must then be performed for each affected router, adding to the total network downtime.
The Cisco IOS Resilient Configuration feature is intended to speed up the recovery process. The feature maintains a secure working copy of the router image and the startup configuration at all times. These secure files cannot be removed by the user. This set of image and router running configuration is referred to as the primary bootset.
The following factors were considered in the design of Cisco IOS Resilient Configuration:
This task describes how to save a primary bootset to a secure archive in persistent storage.
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enable
2.
configure
terminal
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secure
boot-image
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secure
boot-config
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end
6.
show
secure
bootset
The following example displays sample output from the show secure bootset command:
Router# show secure bootset IOS resilience router id JMX0704L5GH IOS image resilience version 12.3 activated at 08:16:51 UTC Sun Jun 16 2002 Secure archive slot0:c3745-js2-mz type is image (elf) [] file size is 25469248 bytes, run size is 25634900 bytes Runnable image, entry point 0x80008000, run from ram IOS configuration resilience version 12.3 activated at 08:17:02 UTC Sun Jun 16 2002 Secure archive slot0:.runcfg-20020616-081702.ar type is config configuration archive size 1059 bytes
This task describes how to restore a primary bootset from a secure archive after the router has been tampered with (by an NVRAM erase or a disk format).
Note | To restore an archived primary bootset, Cisco IOS image resilience must have been enabled and a primary bootset previously archived in persistent storage. |
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reload
2.
dir
[filesystem :]
3.
boot
[partition-number :][filename]
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no
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enable
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configure
terminal
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secure
boot-config
[restore filename
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end
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copy
filename
running-config
The following sections provide references related to Cisco IOS Resilient Configuration.
Related Topic |
Document Title |
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Additional commands: complete command syntax, command mode, defaults, usage guidelines, and examples |
The Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals and Network Management Command Reference , Release 12.4T |
Standards |
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No new or modified standards are supported by this feature, and support for existing standards has not been modified by this feature. |
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MIBs |
MIBs Link |
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No new or modified MIBs are supported by this feature, and support for existing MIBs has not been modified by this feature. |
To locate and download MIBs for selected platforms, Cisco IOS releases, and feature sets, use Cisco MIB Locator found at the following URL: |
RFCs |
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No new or modified RFCs are supported by this feature, and support for existing RFCs has not been modified by this feature. |
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Description |
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The following table provides release information about the feature or features described in this module. This table lists only the software release that introduced support for a given feature in a given software release train. Unless noted otherwise, subsequent releases of that software release train also support that feature.
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Feature Name |
Releases |
Feature Information |
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Cisco IOS Resilient Configuration |
12.3(8)T |
The Cisco IOS Resilient Configuration feature enables a router to secure and maintain a working copy of the running image and configuration so that those files can withstand malicious attempts to erase the contents of persistent storage (NVRAM and flash). In 12.3(8)T this feature was introduced. The following commands were introduced or modified: secure boot-config, secure boot-image, show secure bootset. |