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I understand that a developing product needs updates. Sometimes these updates require changes to what data is expected for an element of the settings config. As a customer, when a firmware update i...
This would be huge. With commercial Cisco devices running IOS configured from the command line, you can just type (I think--I'm a bit rusty) "show config" and it will list the entire configuration, which you can then copy/paste into a plain text file for backup. If you want to restore it, you just copy the contents of the text file, and paste it into the command line (from the appropriate mode), hit enter, then commit the changes, and it's restored. It's super easy. You can modify the config offline, use scripts, etc. I don't know how it handles configurations for deprecated features, but there should be a way to gracefully handle settings that are no longer valid.
michaelkenward "Completely rethink" and "simple" can absolutely go together in a sentence, and conceptually. Consider if a firm is doing things in a very unnecesarily complicated way. If they completely rethink things, they may be able to simplify it. All the settings in the router (Orbi, in my case) render in plain text in the GUI, and they're all displayed in human readable format at the command line when you telnet in, too. Given that the router already has some means to convert the settings between binary and text for both the GUI and CLI, it's not a huge leap to allow the import and export of the settings in plain text, rather than binary.