[76352] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Intelligent Automation of network tasks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Tue Dec 7 13:54:59 2004
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 13:53:53 -0500
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
To: Ejay Hire <ejay.hire@isdn.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <F19526C0E4A5124EB204C94489F6978B015B3DE2@bnaw2kmsx01.BNA01.ISDN.NET>
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On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 12:39:25PM -0600, Ejay Hire wrote:
>
> In my opinion, every network with more than a dozen or so routers needs
> an automated method to distribute massive configuration changes. There
> is a lot of fear that something will break during updates, but with some
> intelligence, that risk can be minimized.
juniper and cisco both support taking machine generated
configurations generated by a non-router device (eg: unix host).
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps5207/products_feature_guide09186a00801d1dc2.html
it's not just in 12.3T, it's also in 12.2S..
on your juniper, try something like "config, load override"
- jared
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