Re: Whitepaper on XML-based Network Management

[Phil Shafer <phil@trip.juniper.net>]

"R.P. Aditya" writes:
>- rather than "junoscript" can it be something vendor/product neutral?

Definitely. Think of junoscript as a technology trial. The real
protocol should be hammered out by an IETF working group. As far
as a name, I'm starting to like XML-based Network Management (XNM),
but who knows....

>- will the native configuration be stored in XML too? So restoring a failed
>machine can simply be copying the XML plaintext config to a new flash card and
>inserting it into a new unit?

We'll support reading either version, but (for now at least) keep our
native braces-based text format. Until non-junoscript software releases
are deprecated, changing the native format would break downgrades.

>- Ideally vendors could share a standard DTD/Schema for various subsystems of
>their products, ie. an Interfaces DTD which is a superset of IF-MIB but the
>tables are more structured. Do you have a JUNOScript DTD in mind/implemented?

DTDs are available on our website:

http://www/techpubs/software/junos44/junoscript44-ref/download/junos-dtd-4.4R1.tgz

More information is available under:

http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software.html

>- one other request I would have is that certain username/logins automatically
>invoke xmlscript mode -- ie. if username is "configurator-xmlscript" etc.

We could certainly make junoscript the default mode for a particular user,
by setting a flag under that user's login information.

Thanks,
 Phil