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Common Elements in the Configuration Desktop
The graphical configuration applications launched from the Configuration Desktop include a common feature set. These
features include bulk configuration and validation. The bulk configuration features provide “templating without templates.”
These features include the capability to take an existing configured object and utilize user selected attributes as a template for
configuring one or more additional objects.
Other common features include:
• Cloning theselected attributes of a record to create newrecords containing the attributes of the original record. In addition,
you can apply an algorithm that generates values of selected key fields.
• Copying and pasting one or more selected attributes from one record to one or more records.
• Editing a single attribute across multiple rows in a table with a single operation.
• Client-side field validation.
• Client-and server-side error checking.
• Resequencing records.
The Configuration Desktop provides the following GUI applications:
• Administration Configuration: AAA, Alarm Administration, and User Administration.
• Applications Configuration: IEP and MPLS-TE.
• Interfaces Configuration: Common, Ethernet, and PoS.
• Controllers Configuration: SONET.
• Policy Configuration: Access Control Lists, Packet Filter, QoS, and Routing Policy.
• Protocols Configuration: BGP, ISIS, LDP, OSPF, and RSVP.
You can concurrently access multiple applications within the Configuration Desktop.
Replace Configuration Editor
The Replace Configuration Editor application is available in the Configuration Desktop and allows you to replace the running
configuration on the router with the contents of the Replace Configuration Editor window.
The Replace Configuration Editor provides general text editor functions such as copy, paste, redo, and undo, and provides
syntax checking and CLI functions such as command completion and CLI help.