NOTE: Remember that HC by default persists config and restores it after restart.
You can disable this behaviour using config/honeycomb.json.
-== <copy-config> examples
+== <copy-config>
=== ACL
./acl/test_nat_updates.sh
----
-== <validate> examples
+== <validate>
== ACL <edit-config> + <validate>
[source]
./edit_config.py --validate acl/config_invalid_acl.xml
----
+== URL capability
+
+Provide URL as source or target.
+Source URL can use file, http, https or ftp protocol.
+Target URL can use file protocol.
+
+When using file protocol, provided patch should correspond to a file accessible by Honeycomb.
+
+Example:
+
+[source]
+----
+./copy_config_url.py "file:///home/m/hc2vpp/examples/ncclient/bd/config_bd.xml" candidate
+----
+
+
--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import argparse
+import logging
+from ncclient import manager
+
+
+def _copy_config_url(source, target, host='localhost', port=2831, username='admin', password='admin'):
+ with manager.connect(host=host, port=port, username=username, password=password, hostkey_verify=False) as m:
+ logger.info("Connected to HC")
+ ret = m.copy_config(source=source, target=target)
+ logger.info("<copy-config> successful:\n%s" % ret)
+ ret = m.commit()
+ logger.info("<commit> successful:\n%s", ret)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+ logger = logging.getLogger("hc2vpp.examples.copy_config_url")
+ argparser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Configures VPP using <copy-config> RPC")
+ argparser.add_argument('source', help="source datastore name or URI of XML file with <config> element")
+ argparser.add_argument('target', help="target datastore name or URI of XML file with <config> element")
+ argparser.add_argument('--verbose', help="increase output verbosity", action="store_true")
+ args = argparser.parse_args()
+
+ logger = logging.getLogger("hc2vpp.examples.copy_config")
+ if args.verbose:
+ logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
+ else:
+ logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
+
+ _copy_config_url(args.source, args.target)