ASR9K xml agent vs netconf

Tue Aug 5 16:01:21 UTC 2014

>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 at 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 at wisc.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>>Thus spake Jeremy (jbaino at 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}
>