[c-nsp] IOS(-XE) 'configure replace' robustness

[James Bensley]

On 3 May 2017 at 17:09, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:
> James Bensley wrote:
>> We are generating a full device config using Jinja2 templates.
>
> slightly off topic, but did you try feeding this into napalm and seeing
> what happens?  This works extremely well on arista kit (and I believe
> XR, junos and nx-os too), as eos allows config merge to be performed
> before commit.
>
> Regarding your question, I'm not currently using config management on
> any denali devices.


Hi Nick,

Yeah this fails through NAPALM, I've read through the code and I
perform the same process by hand so that I may debug it with more
verbosity: SCP config file to device, run "configure replace
flash:candidate_config.txt revert....".

Seem this is CSR1000v/IOS-XE specific.

Cheers,
James.