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GNS3 Graphical Network Simulator
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option to wipe/reset startup-cfg disk. #3331

Open jcpvdm opened 2 years ago

jcpvdm commented 2 years ago

Would like to have a GUI option to easily wipe/reset startup-cfg disk after a node is instantiated.

Reason for this: License file is stored in the startup-cfg zip. The licenses need to be refreshed periodically. We either need to delete and re-create the node, or manually do the following:

  1. Stop the node
  2. SSH to the GNS3 server
  3. find the node folder
  4. delete config.img and config.zip
  5. Start the node (config.img and config.zip is created again from the template startup-cfg zip)

Would like to have this simplified by a right click on the node and execute "wipe/reset startup-cfg". Also would be useful to have a global option to do execute this action for all nodes in the topology / currently selected.

ghost commented 2 years ago

That is a good suggestion. Perhaps it can be implemented together with https://github.com/GNS3/gns3-gui/issues/2868.

In the meantime try the following: Copy the startup-cfg to a client computer, in the GNS3 GUI stop the node, select it and then use right-click / "Import config" to import the startup-cfg as the new configuration disk.