ProfessorI solved this with the REST API -- I have a script that pulls all the config instances, then commits them into a git repo (one per device group in my case). I use GitLab with an email push trigger, so I get reports on updates more or less as they occur, but obviously that could be handled other ways. I find this beneficial for many reasons, including:
* keep a separate copy out of LM so some errant action in LM does not destroy config data and history
* enable searching for configuration elements across multiple files (impossible within the UI)
* build tools to validate configs against baseline templates or other sorts of analysis
* generate way better diff results (the current UI diff viewer REALLY needs a rewrite)
* I get to find out all the times LMConfig flakes out, like when it zeroes out config instances if NVRAM is temporarily unavailable
I would like to post those here, but you can't post text files it seems. Will see if I can get those into github....
On 5/30/2018 at 3:32 AM, Kuldip Mitra said:Hi Mnagel,
Thanks for the reply. Can you please share us the script/GIT Repo URL to pull the config instances so that I can implement in my environment and check it.
Regards
Kuldip
@Kuldip Mitra I was trying to find a way to easily sync just part of my repo without manual maintenance, but for now I did the manual method. The better way can wait a bit.
Please see https://github.com/willingminds/lmapi-scripts for the scripts. Hopefully will work for you without too much pain, but definitely no training wheels attached :).
