Overview of the CLI Add-On Feature Templates
If you attach a device template containing both a feature template and the new CLI add-on feature template, the configurations are merged. The merge gives priority to the new CLI add-on feature templates. Cisco SD-WAN Manager first generates the configurations based on the feature template. After the configuration is generated, it uses the configuration from the CLI add-on feature templates to merge it into the feature template config output that was previously generated. Hence, using this feature, you can add specific device configurations that are not provided by the existing feature templates or you can override the configurations of existing feature templates.
When you specify commands using the template, use the commands as per the syntax displayed in the show sdwan running-config
output. When you attach the template to the device, Cisco SD-WAN Manager takes the information from all feature templates and also takes the data you specified using the CLI add-on feature template
to create the device configuration. The commands that you specify in the CLI add-on feature template overwrites any equivalent
commands in the corresponding feature template.
In addition to changing existing commands, the CLI add-on feature template can also be used to specify commands that are not
available in Cisco SD-WAN Manager but are qualified for the device. For example, for Cisco AAA, the attempts login
command is not available in Cisco SD-WAN Manager. By using a CLI add-on feature template, you can specify the aaa authentication attempts login number
command for a device. After you create the feature template, ensure that you add it to the device template.
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You must define the CLI add-on feature template before you use it in a device template. For a list of CLIs that are qualified, see Qualified CLIs for CLI Add-on Feature Templates. |