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Chapter 6 CLI Tips, Techniques, and Shortcuts
Wildcards, Templates, and Aliases
The two primary steps in working with templates are creating templates and applying templates. The
following procedure describes how to create a configuration template.
SUMMARY STEPS
1. configure
2. template template-name [($parameter $parameter...)] [config-commands]
3. Enter the template commands.
4. end-template
5. commit
6. show running-config template template-name
DETAILED STEPS
Command or Action Purpose
Step 1
configure
Example:
Router# configure
Enters global configuration mode.
Step 2
template template-name [($ parameter
$ parameter... )] [ config-commands ]
Example:
RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# template tmplt_1
Enters template configuration mode and creates a template.
• template-name: Unique name for the template to be
applied to the running configuration.
• parameter: (Optional) Actual values of the variables
specified in the template definition. Up to five
parameters can be specified within parentheses. Each
parameter must begin with the $ character. Templates
can be created with or without parameters.
• config-commands: (Optional) Global configuration
commands to be added to the template definition. Any
name in a command (such as the server name, group
name, and so on) can be parameterized. This means that
those parameters can be used in the template commands
(starting with $) and replaced with real arguments when
applied.
• To remove the template, use the no form of this
command.
Step 3
Enter the template commands.
Example:
RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-TPL)# hostname test
Defines the template commands.
Step 4
end-template
Example:
RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-TPL)# end-template
Ends the template definition session and exits template
configuration mode.
• When you end the template session, you are returned to
global configuration mode.