Quick Start

Ten minutes from first login to your first automated backup.

1. Log in and change the admin password

Open https://<your-server>:8443, sign in as admin with the installer-printed password. vConfig forces a password change on first login.

2. Set default device credentials

Most networks share a common automation account. Under Settings → Backup, set the default SSH/Telnet username and password. Devices without per-device credentials fall back to these; you can also override credentials per device.

3. Add devices

Three ways:

• Manually — Devices → Add device: hostname, IP, vendor, type (router/switch), group.
• Bulk import — paste lines of hostname IP vendor [type] [group].
• SNMP auto-discovery — Discovery: define an IP range and SNMP community/v3 profile; discovered devices are enrolled automatically.

Device count and licensing

The Free plan manages up to 10 devices. Paid tiers raise the cap — see Licensing.

4. Run your first backup

Select devices → Backup now, or run a full backup from the dashboard. Results (including per-device failure reasons) appear under Backup logs. Once a device has two backups, the diff view shows exactly what changed between versions.

5. Schedule backups and alerts

• Settings → Backup: set the schedule (daily is typical), concurrency and timeouts.
• Settings → Alerts: add a webhook (Slack, Teams, WeCom, DingTalk, Feishu) to get notified on backup failures and configuration changes.

6. Explore from there

Module	What you get
Config changes	Network-wide feed of added/removed lines per device
Config search	Full-text search across every stored config
Resource index	Interfaces, VLANs, VRFs, BGP AS, customers extracted from configs
Topology	Neighbor graph from OSPF/IS-IS/BGP-LS with traffic overlays
Monitoring	Latency/jitter/loss matrix measured from your own routers
Inventory	Hardware serial collection down to optics
DCIM	Racks, PDUs, cables, graphical U-slot views
Compliance	Rule-based scans against per-vendor baselines