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<get-config>

Usage

Description

Request configuration data from the NETCONF server. The child tag elements <source> and <filter> specify the source and scope of data to display:

  • To display the entire active configuration, enclose the <source> tag element and <running/> tag in the <get-config> tag element.

  • To display either the entire candidate configuration or all configuration data in the open configuration database, enclose the <source> tag element and <candidate/> tag in the <get-config> tag element.

    If a client application issues the Junos XML protocol <open-configuration> operation to open a specific configuration database before executing the <get-config> operation, setting the source to <candidate/> retrieves the configuration data from the open configuration database. Otherwise, the server returns the configuration data from the candidate configuration.

  • To display one or more sections of the configuration hierarchy (hierarchy levels or configuration objects), enclose the appropriate child tag elements in the <source> and <filter> tag elements.

Contents

<candidate/>

Specify the open configuration database, or if there is no open database, the candidate configuration.

<configuration>

Enclose tag elements that specify which configuration elements to return.

<filter>

Enclose the <configuration> tag element. The mandatory type attribute indicates the kind of syntax used to represent the requested configuration elements; the only acceptable value is subtree.

To specify the configuration elements to return, include within the <filter> tag element the Junos XML tag elements that represent all levels of the configuration hierarchy from the root (represented by the <configuration> tag element) down to each element to display. For information about the configuration elements available in the current version of the Junos OS, see the XML API Explorer.

<running/>

Specify the active (mostly recently committed) configuration.

<source>

Enclose the tag that specifies the source of the configuration data. To specify either the candidate configuration or an open configuration database, include the <candidate/> tag. To specify the active configuration, include the <running/> tag.