Re: JunOS config yacc grammar?

[Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>]

>  We already
> have cron jobs running on the switches that tftp the config file
> to a server, and I'd prefer to leverage off that.

Use the same cron jobs to save a copy as xml/json and pull the file off.

On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 7:52 PM Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) <
lyndon () orthanc ca> wrote:

> Nick Hilliard writes:
>
> > No need to reinvent that wheel:
> >
> > root@foo> show configuration | display xml
> > root@foo> show configuration | display json
>
> That doesn't quite work for this scenario.  It would mean ssh-ing
> to the switch to grab it, and that's pretty locked down.  We already
> have cron jobs running on the switches that tftp the config file
> to a server, and I'd prefer to leverage off that.
>
> Also, the yacc parser would let me do some validation checks
> before we push new configs.
>
> --lyndon