How do I bulk edit multiple deployments?

Purpose

You can edit up to ten deployments at one time. The following criteria must be met:

  • The deployments must be from the same template.

  • The template must be flexible.

  • All deployments must have a compatible deployment status: saved, deployed aligned, or deployed misaligned.

Adding values to lists or tables

Some parameters, such as queues and forwarding classes in a QoS template, appear in list or table format in a configuration form. Existing table parameters can’t be displayed in the edit form, however, you can add them in the edit form.

Added values can be handled in the following ways:

  • Do Nothing: ignore all added table or list parameters and keep the existing values.

  • Append All: keep the existing values in the deployments and add the values that were added during editing.

    If a value is added that already existed on a deployment, the new value will overwrite the old.

  • Replace All: replace the entire table on all deployments with the table of values added during editing. If no values are added, the tables are empty after the edit.

Example

Deployment 1 has no queues and no forwarding classes.

Deployment 2 has:

  • one queue: Queue ID 5, Queue Type expedited, Queue Mode priority

  • one forwarding class: FC Name be, Profile in, Queue 5

The deployments are edited. The edit operation includes adding the following:

  • no queues

  • forwarding classes:

    FC Name be, Profile in, Queue 2

    FC Name af, Profile none, Queue 2

The following table shows the results of the edit based on the chosen handling of added values.

Table 8-1: Results of bulk edit based on handling of added table values

Handling option

Deployment 1

Deployment 2

Do Nothing

No queues, no forwarding classes

  • one queue: Queue ID 5, Queue Type expedited, Queue Mode priority

  • one forwarding class: FC Name be, Profile in, Queue 5

Append All

  • no queues

  • forwarding classes:

    FC Name be, Profile in, Queue 2

    FC Name af, Profile none, Queue 2

  • one queue: Queue ID 5, Queue Type expedited, Queue Mode priority

  • forwarding classes:

    FC Name be, Profile in, Queue 2

    FC Name af, Profile none, Queue 2

Replace All

  • no queues

  • forwarding classes:

    FC Name be, Profile in, Queue 2

    FC Name af, Profile none, Queue 2

  • no queues

  • forwarding classes:

    FC Name be, Profile in, Queue 2

    FC Name af, Profile none, Queue 2

Steps
 
1 

View a list of deployments from the same template:

  1. Open Device Management, Configuration Deployments and filter the list by template name.

    1. Open Device Management, Configuration Templates.

    2. Click on a template and choose png1.png (Table row actions), View all deployments.

The view displays a list of deployments from the template.

2 

Select up to ten deployments.

3 

From the header at the top of the view, choose png1.png (More), Edit.

An edit form opens, showing the template parameters. If a field parameter has the same value for all selected deployments, the value is shown in the form.

4 

Update the parameters and click CONTINUE.

5 

In the confirmation form that opens, select the way you want to handle added values and click UPDATE.

End of steps