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
 

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.


Select up to ten deployments.


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.


Update the parameters and click CONTINUE.


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

End of steps