Hello.
On some of our NCM servers we've noticed that it's highlighting discrepancies between startup and running configs that don't actually exist.
What's happening is that on the startup config, certain lines are being shown in a different order to the running config so they are being flagged as extra content on the one side and missing on the other. I've attached a screenshot below as an example.
If we telnet or SSH onto that device and do a sho run and sho start then there is no difference between the two - the lines are in the same order on both (the version shown on the running config in NCM) so I'm not quite sure why NCM is reordering things.
I think it's all Cisco devices this is happening to, but I've not checked them all.
This is quite inconvenient for us, as we use NCM to manage some of our customers networks, and they have a logon to the web portal
They see devices showing as having differences between startup and running configs and are concerned that we are making changes then failing to save them, and us saying blaming the software that we use doesn't look that good either.
Thanks