Re: ASR9K xml agent vs netconf

[Hugo Slabbert <hslabbert () stargate ca>]

> Kudo¹s is that you can just dump it in as well and get what you want.

You can dump hierarchical config (the bracket stuff) into JunOS with "load" 
plus the added benefit/flexibility of the merge/replace/override options.

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Hugo

On Tue 2014-Aug-05 13:42:18 +0000, Corey Touchet 
<corey.touchet () corp totalserversolutions com> wrote:
> I always preferred the displays where you have commands without all the
> bracket garbage and just indented text for sub items.
>
>
> On the MX the show configuration | display set is about as close as you
> can get, but it¹s workable.  Kudo¹s is that you can just dump it in as
> well and get what you want.  I think the only time I really get annoyed at
> the JunOS configurations is when I¹m staring down any of their switches.
>
> On 8/5/14, 7:32 AM, "Dale W. Carder" <dwcarder () wisc edu> wrote:
>
> > Thus spake Jeremy (jbaino () gmail com) on Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 03:07:19PM
> > -0700:
> > > I'm currently working on writing some automation around the ASR9K
> > > platform
> > > and I've been looking at both the netconf and xml interfaces. Anyone
> > > have
> > > experience with either?
> > >
> > > It looks like the XML interface is much more feature rich, supporting
> > > both
> > > config and operational state objects where netconf is limited to config
> > > only.
> > >
> > > Currently I'm leaning towards the xml interface,
> >
> > I wasted a week of my life trying to get xml interface on n9k to work
> > correctly.  I would never use it again, as it obviously gets no QA.
> >
> > There is likely a fundamental design flaw in that the cli is not itself
> > an xml client like you see on other platforms.  The XML interface, and
> > CLI (presumably netconf) may all be distinct clients to sysdb.  I did
> > get (3) ddts' assigned, related to missing data compared to cli, endian
> > issues, etc.  My recommendation is DO NOT USE IT.
> >
> > I went back to screen scraping for ios-xr.  Related to this and other
> > issues, all of our subsequent purchases have been MX.
> >
> > Dale
> > AS{59,2381,3128}