Cisco Router IOS XR Getting Started Manual page 169

Chapter 6 CLI Tips, Techniques, and Shortcuts
The two primary steps in working with templates are creating templates and applying templates. The
following procedure describes how to create a configuration template.
SUMMARY STEPS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
DETAILED STEPS
Command or Action
Step 1
configure
Example:
Router# configure
Step 2
template template-name
] [
$ parameter... )
Example:
RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# template tmplt_1
Step 3 Enter the template commands.
Example:
RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-TPL)# hostname test
Step 4
end-template
Example:
RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-TPL)# end-template
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configure
template template-name [($parameter $parameter...)] [config-commands]
Enter the template commands.
end-template
commit
show running-config template template-name
[
($ parameter
]
config-commands
Purpose
Enters global configuration mode.
Enters template configuration mode and creates a template.
• template-name: Unique name for the template to be
applied to the running configuration.
parameter: (Optional) Actual values of the variables
•
specified in the template definition. Up to five
parameters can be specified within parentheses. Each
parameter must begin with the $ character. Templates
can be created with or without parameters.
config-commands: (Optional) Global configuration
•
commands to be added to the template definition. Any
name in a command (such as the server name, group
name, and so on) can be parameterized. This means that
those parameters can be used in the template commands
(starting with $) and replaced with real arguments when
applied.
To remove the template, use the no form of this
•
command.
Defines the template commands.
Ends the template definition session and exits template
configuration mode.
When you end the template session, you are returned to
•
global configuration mode.
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