Re: Interactive vs Batch modes

[john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net>]

Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 04:50:21PM -0700, David T. Perkins:
> HI,
> 
> One point that seems important to me, but which seems missed is
> the distinction between interactive configuration and batched
> (or bulk) configuration. The interactive kind is like SNMP, or
> CLI session with a person or script driving it. The batched kind
> is like "load this config file", where the config file may be
> stored locally on the managed device or somewhere on the network.
> 
> There are different ways to handle errors with each.

quite and briefly menthion WRT rcp/tftp/scp/ftp.  also different methods
of making those changes active:

- load complete file, parse, {merge or replace} and make active
- load and make active at boot or at time 00:00

others?  i want both of the above.