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DevOps & Automation · Advanced

NETCONF Datastores

Conceptual configuration stores accessed by NETCONF: running, candidate, and startup.

Definition

running holds active configuration; candidate allows staging changes and applying them atomically with commit (with optional confirmed-commit rollback); startup is loaded at boot. NMDA (RFC 8342) adds operational and intended datastores.

Example

lock candidate, edit-config target=candidate, validate, commit, unlock.

Exam tip

Candidate + commit gives transactional, all-or-nothing changes; it is advertised as the :candidate capability.

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