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Subject: Re: CLI transactions
From: Eliot Lear <lear @ cisco . com>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:25:55 +0200
To: Min Qiu <mqiu @ pop2pop . com>
Cc: j . schoenwaelder @ iu-bremen . de,Andrew Fort <andrew . fort @ gmail . com>, Kirby Files <ksfiles @ gmail . com>,Network Automation List <network-automation @ greatcircle . com>
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Min Qiu wrote:
> So far, our discussion is device centric.  The way I see NMS 
> is it should be network centric.  That is, if I perform a
> change to the network, deploy a VPN or an access list, lets 
> say I need to touch 5 devices and failed at 3rd device, I 
> would like to know what "rollback" realy means.

Thus far I believe the discussion has been around device functionality 
necessary to deliver certain network behavior .  Your question of what 
rollback really means is a good one.  To me it means a return to a 
configured state prior to one or more configuration changes (see 
checkpoints ;-)

Eliot


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