Reply to post: Re: The benefits of a CLI

Cisco says CLI becoming interface of last resort

P. Lee

Re: The benefits of a CLI

So perhaps a two tier system- gui generates scripts which can be reviewed and deployed.

Abstraction trades resources for admin/Dev time. It also often results in unintelligible cli configurations.

Guis work best when there are few parameters. That's not great for Cisco. If it's hard to represent the problem or solution visually, a gui probably isn't the best option.

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