On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, Phil Mayers wrote:
On 07/06/16 21:51, Rob Foehl wrote:
Does anyone have any clever methods for probing Enhanced Layer 2
Software support from a commit script on QFX/EX in order to generate
changes appropriate to the platform? Specifically looking for something
beyond checking hardware and version numbers, or for pieces of config
hierarchy that might not be present on any given box either way.
<rpc>
<get-ethernet-switching-table-information>
<summary/>
...returns substantially different XML b/w ELS and non-ELS IIRC.
Thanks, Phil. Just realizing I'd never followed up on this...
That RPC does return completely different XML, and was easy enough to
wedge into a commit script to detect ELS vs. non-ELS, but we hit a snag
with VCs in that the backup RE fails to execute the RPC and thus blows up
during a commit sync. This should still work fine over netconf for
off-box differentiation, of course.
We wound up falling back to platform detection, with explicit pattern
matching for the models we've tested the script on. There's a small
benefit there, in that the script will refuse to run on a new box where
nobody's tested it before, but that's still a maintenance trade-off.
-Rob
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