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Chapter 9 Making and Deploying Configuration Changes Using NetConfig

Creating and Editing User-defined Tasks

You can change details such as the command mode, parameterization option, the device type, the CLI

commands or the rollback commands.

You can add a template or delete an existing one. When you click Save, a message appears that the task

is modified.

Parameterized Templates

You can include parameterized templates within User-defined tasks. A parameterized template allows

the configuration commands in the templates to contain user-defined variables.

Multiline feature of parameterized templates is not supported. However, interactive command deploy is

supported.

You can select the Parameterized option when you create a User-defined task (see Creating and Editing

User-defined Tasks).

If you select the Parameterized option, you should enter the actual values for the parameters in the

template in a separate Parameters file (see Creating a Parameters File (XML file)) when you create a

NetConfig job (see Creating and Editing User-defined Tasks). The Parameters file is the XML file that

contains the parameter values.

The Parameters file should reside on the server at this location:

NMSROOT\files\rme\netconfig\cmdFiles

where NMSROOT is the RME install directory.

To create a Parameterized User-defined task and apply this in a NetConfig job:

Step 1 Create a User defined Task with variables embedded in the command body. For details see Creating and

Editing User-defined Tasks.

For example:

You can enter the command ntp server $ntpServer in the CLI Commands text box in the User-defined

Tasks dialog box. Commands

Step 2 Select the Parameterized check box in the User-defined Tasks dialog box.

Step 3 Click Save to save your User-defined Parameterized task.

Step 4 Create the Parameters file (XML file) containing the values for $ntpServer task. For details, see Creating

a Parameters File (XML file).

For example:

<value>mytimeserver</value>

</CMDPARAM>

</DEVICE>

Step 5 Repeat the above step in the Parameters file, for all the devices that you plan to include in the job, if each

device refers to a different ntpServer.