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Reviewing and Deploying the Device Configuration
When you finish modifying a device configuration, you can review and deploy the configuration by using the Review/Deploy Configuration page. You can review and deploy configurations created using the Schema-Based Configuration Editor, CLI Configlets, or Configuration Guides. You can review these configurations in a device-centric view, exclude or include, and approve or reject appropriate configuration changes, and deploy them to one or more devices in a single commit operation.
In Junos Space Network Management Platform, different users can create configuration templates for a particular device. A single reviewer can then view all these configurations for one or multiple devices (see Viewing and Assigning Shared Objects) to decide which of them to deploy and in what sequence.
It is possible to create a configuration that is not shared, in which case, only its creator can deploy it. For example, configurations scheduled for deployment that were created with the Schema-Based Configuration Editor are not shared and are therefore not visible as a shared object.
You cannot validate or deploy a configuration on a modeled device that is in the Modeled state.
You can perform the following tasks on the Review/Deploy Configuration page:
Viewing the Configuration Changes on the Device
You can view the configuration changes that you want to deploy on the device, on the Review/Deploy Configuration page. The configuration displayed on the page includes changes from the Schema-Based Configuration Editor, templates, or CLI Configlets.
To view the configuration changes:
Click Close to return to the Review/Deploy Configuration page.
Validating the Delta Configuration on the Device
You validate the delta configuration on the device and view the validation results before deploying the configuration changes to the device. The configuration changes created using the Schema-Based Configuration Editor, templates, and CLI Configlets are validated on the device.
To validate the delta configuration on the device:
Click Close to return to the Review/Deploy Configuration page.
Viewing the Device-Configuration Validation Report
After you have validated the configuration on the device, you can view the validation results.
To view the validation results:
Click Close to return to the Review/Deploy Configuration page.
Excluding or Including a Group of Configuration Changes
You can exclude or include a specific group of configuration changes created using the Schema-Based Configuration Editor, templates, and CLI Configlets. If you exclude a configuration change, the change is not deployed to the device during the deploy operation.
To exclude or include a specific group of configuration changes:
Click Close to return to the Review/Deploy Configuration page.
Deleting a Group of Configuration Changes
You can delete a specific group of configuration changes created using the Schema-Based Configuration Editor, templates, and CLI Configlets. If you delete the configuration changes, the changes are not deployed to the device during the deploy operation.
To delete a specific group of configuration changes:
Click Close to return to the Review/Deploy Configuration page.
Approving the Configuration Changes
You approve the configuration changes after you have successfully validated the configuration changes on the device. Approving the configuration is the last step you perform before you deploy the configuration on the device.
To approve the configuration changes:
If you cannot approve the configuration on the Review/Deploy Configuration page, check whether the Enable approval workflow for configuration deployment check box on the Administration > Applications > Modify Application Settings > Devices page is not selected. By default, this check box is selected.
Rejecting the Configuration Changes
You can reject the configuration changes you have approved earlier. Rejecting the configuration changes prevents the configuration from being deployed on the device.
To reject the configuration changes:
You can view the rejected configuration on the Change Summary tab.
Deploying the Configuration Changes to a Device
You can deploy the configuration changes you have approved earlier to a device.
To deploy the configuration changes to a device:
If you are upgrading to a new version of Junos Space Network Management Platform, you should deploy all consolidated configurations and change requests before the upgrade. The upgrade deletes all consolidated configurations and change requests.