On 03/25/09 09:19, Sangeeta Misra wrote: >>> 5. 'ilbadm import' reads from a file and override what is in SCF, >>> meaning that >>> all existing property groups will be deleted, and new property >>> groups will be >>> created based on the content of the file. >> >> this is in direct contradiction to what we have now: as the spec has >> it, you need to *explicitly* remove all configuration if you want to >> start afresh. > > Where in the spec does it say this? > > I think ilbadm import<filename> should replace the contents of > persistent conf in SCF that of the file.
here's the direct quote: > import [filename] > > NOTE: existing configuration is not destroyed first, so if a > "clean slate" is required, rules etc. need to be destroyed > first. the reasoning was at the time that it would be hard to do anything incremental if import implicitly removed everything first. Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'