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List:       juniper-nsp
Subject:    Re: [j-nsp] Bulk Provisioning Question
From:       Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+junipernsp () eintellego ! net>
Date:       2012-04-30 13:41:39
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Phil,

Thanks for the advice.

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On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 21:56, Phil Shafer <phil@juniper.net> wrote:

> Skeeve Stevens writes:
> >We've considered having a single process using edit exclusive, but this =
is
> >going to slow things down significantly.
>
> Commits are serialized, so they are effectively a single process
> on the box.  Using "edit private" will likely decrease performance,
> since internally it's doing diff/patch processing at commit time.
>
> I would use the <lock-configuration> RPC ("configure exclusive")
> and consider pushing all changes via a single external process
> that can "batch" them together, if you can trust the patches.
>
> Also I always suggest putting application-based configuration into
> a configuration group so that (a) it's easy to see what's application
> provided and what's hand configured, (b) it's easy to "load replace"
> that config group with new application data, and (c) the human user
> can override the application using the foreground config.  It's
> also easy to test application by turning off the "apply-groups" for
> that app's config group.  Not required, but something that has
> worked well for me.
>
> Thanks,
>  Phil
>
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