CLI Templates in Prime

[scott.leonard]

I'm learning how to create CLI templates and have an easy question.

A few weeks ago a created a very simple template that configured a logging server (Prime). It had two lines:

logging facility syslog

logging xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  (IP of my Prime server)

I wasn't sure if I needed to use the command 'configure terminal' or not and left it out. It turns out that Prime is smart enough to enter configure mode before running the commands but it did not write the new configuration and left all the switches with a mismatch between Run and Start.

I'm now writing another simple template and don't know how to put in the write command. Do I just put that after some configure mode commands and trust that Prime is smart enough to exit configure mode before executing 'write' or should I explicitly put an 'exit' before 'write' ?

This?:

no logging event link-status

write

or this?:

no logging event link-status

exit

write

[Marvin Rhoads · Accepted solution]

I'm not sure about the efficacy of your suggestion; but I have had success adding the line:

do copy running-config startup-config

[scott.leonard · Accepted solution]

do copy running-config startup-config

produces the error:

copy not allowed in config mode or submode

so instead I used:

do wr

[Marvin Rhoads]

Thanks for the update - it looks like some versions indeed don't allow the copy command in config mode - I just verified on another switch.