[PATCH] osmo-gsm-manuals[master]: common/vty: explain difference between telnet and config file

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Neels Hofmeyr gerrit-no-reply at lists.osmocom.org
Thu Oct 19 04:32:46 UTC 2017


Review at  https://gerrit.osmocom.org/4346

common/vty: explain difference between telnet and config file

- Mention that the CONFIG node is used to parse config files.
- Mention that it is not well defined whether CONFIG node items have immediate
  effect.
- Add a 'telnet' here and there to clarify.

Change-Id: I882346c69f12c67d0e41d563c99d4de4efd8b8f6
---
M common/chapters/vty.adoc
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


  git pull ssh://gerrit.osmocom.org:29418/osmo-gsm-manuals refs/changes/46/4346/1

diff --git a/common/chapters/vty.adoc b/common/chapters/vty.adoc
index 995fd2f..51fc6f4 100644
--- a/common/chapters/vty.adoc
+++ b/common/chapters/vty.adoc
@@ -12,12 +12,13 @@
 use the Control interface instead of the VTY, and to actively request /
 implement the Control interface commands as required for your use case.
 
-The Osmocom VTY is used to
+The interactive telnet VTY is used to
 
 * explore the current status of the system, including its configuration
   parameters but also run-time state and statistics
 * review the currently active (running) configuration
-* perform interactive changes to the configuration
+* perform interactive changes to the configuration (for those items that do not
+  require a program restart)
 * store the current running configuration to the config file
 * enable or disable logging; to the VTY itself or to other targets
 
@@ -28,6 +29,20 @@
 of options. The available commands depend on the current node.  there
 are various keyboard shortcuts to ease finding commands and the possible
 argument values.
+
+Configuration file parsing during program start is actually performed the VTY's
+CONFIG node, which is also available in the telnet VTY. Apart from that, the
+telnet VTY features various interactive commands to query and instruct a
+running Osmocom program. A main difference is that during config file parsing,
+consistent indenting of parent vs. child nodes is required, while the
+interactive VTY ignores indenting and relies on the 'exit' command to return to
+a parent node.
+
+NOTE: In the 'CONFIG' node, it is not well documented which commands take
+immediate effect without requiring a program restart. To save your current
+config with changes you may have made, you may use the `write file` command to
+*overwrite* your config file with the current configuration, after which you
+should be able to restart the program with all changes taking effect.
 
 This chapter explains the most common nodes nodes and the commands that
 are available within the node.
@@ -47,7 +62,7 @@
 |`<0-10>`|`5`|A number from a range
 |===============
 
-=== Accessing the VTY
+=== Accessing the telnet VTY
 
 The VTY of a given Osmocom program is implemented as a telnet server,
 listening to a specific TCP port.  For `osmo-nitb`, this port is `4242`.

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