Question

A network engineer is automating configuration changes on an IOS XE router using NETCONF over SSH on port 830. The engineer wants the ability to stage a batch of configuration changes, validate them, and then apply them all at once as a single transaction — with the option to discard the staged changes if validation fails. Which NETCONF capability must the device support to accomplish this workflow?

Accepted Answer

The :candidate capability, editing a candidate datastore and using <commit> to apply changes

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The :writable-running capability, editing the running datastore directly with <edit-config>

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The :startup capability, copying running to startup with <copy-config>

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The :rollback-on-error option within a single <edit-config> to the running datastore