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Unsupported Configuration Statements in the Ephemeral Configuration Database

The ephemeral database is an alternate configuration database. Juniper Extension Toolkit (JET) applications and NETCONF and Junos XML protocol client applications can simultaneously load and commit configuration changes to the ephemeral database with significantly greater throughput than when committing data to the candidate configuration database. To improve commit performance, the ephemeral commit process does not perform all of the operations and validations executed by the standard commit model. As a result, you cannot configure some features through the ephemeral database. For example, the ephemeral configuration database does not support configuring interface alias names.

Use Feature Explorer to confirm platform and release support for specific features.

Review the Platform-Specific Ephemeral Database Behavior section for notes related to your platform.

The ephemeral configuration database does not support the following configuration statements. We've grouped the statements under their top-level configuration statement hierarchy. If a client attempts to configure an unsupported statement in an ephemeral instance, the server returns an error during the load operation.

[edit]

[edit interfaces]

[edit logical-systems]

Note:

Starting in Junos OS Release 23.2R1 and Junos OS Evolved Release 23.4R1, you can configure MSTP, RSTP, and VSTP in the ephemeral configuration database on supported platforms.

[edit policy-options]

[edit protocols]

Note:

Starting in Junos OS Release 23.2R1 and Junos OS Evolved Release 23.4R1, you can configure MSTP, RSTP, and VSTP in the ephemeral configuration database on supported platforms.

[edit routing-instances]

Note:

Starting in Junos OS Release 23.2R1 and Junos OS Evolved Release 23.4R1, you can configure MSTP, RSTP, and VSTP in the ephemeral configuration database on supported platforms.

[edit security]

[edit services]

[edit system]

Platform-Specific Ephemeral Database Behavior

Use Feature Explorer to confirm platform and release support for specific features.

Use the following table to review platform-specific behaviors for your platforms.

Table 1: Platform-Specific Behavior

Platform

Difference

SRX Series

  • On SRX Series devices that support the ephemeral database, you cannot configure the [edit security] statement hierarchy in the ephemeral configuration database.

Change History Table

Feature support is determined by the platform and release you are using. Use Feature Explorer to determine if a feature is supported on your platform.

Release
Description
23.4R1-EVO
Starting in Junos OS Evolved Release 23.4R1, Junos OS Evolved supports configuring MSTP, RSTP, and VSTP in the ephemeral configuration database on supported devices.
23.4R1
Starting in Junos OS Release 23.4R1, to configure MSTP, RSTP, or VSTP in the ephemeral configuration database, you must first configure the ephemeral-db-support statement at the [edit protocols layer2-control] hierarchy level in the static configuration database.
23.2R2
Starting in Junos OS Release 23.2R2, to configure MSTP, RSTP, or VSTP in the ephemeral configuration database, you must first configure the ephemeral-db-support statement at the [edit protocols layer2-control] hierarchy level in the static configuration database.
23.2R1
Starting in Junos OS Release 23.2R1, Junos OS supports configuring MSTP, RSTP, and VSTP in the ephemeral configuration database on supported devices.