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Feature Req. - Preview Commands
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 8:05 pm
by chrisw
In Cisco ASDM there is an option to preview commands of changes made in the GUI before they are applied. Adding a feature like this would help in a number of ways:
- Newbies get to see their actions in the GUI played out in the command line, thus helping them learn commands.
- Commands are easily copy/pasted out of the GUI instead of needing to go to the Terminal to do an export.
- It looks cool.
cli preview.png
Re: Feature Req. - Preview Commands
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 5:55 pm
by psannz
Great idea, I fully support it.
Re: Feature Req. - Preview Commands
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 8:18 am
by y64xkuo
I want that!
But you should be able to view or hide the command output with a button.
Re: Feature Req. - Preview Commands
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 9:58 am
by soonwai
Nice one. I support this too.
Re: Feature Req. - Preview Commands
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 10:43 am
by andriys
This makes no sense to me.
Such feature is useful in the world of ASA, where the way you do things in ASDM is rather different from what you'd do if you configure the same via CLI. However the situation is rather different in Mikrotik world- the way WinBox (and also WebFig) is organized closely resembles (with just a few minor exceptions) the CLI menu structure. So what's the point in duplicating the information that is already available?
Re: Feature Req. - Preview Commands
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 12:31 pm
by y64xkuo
This makes no sense to me.
Such feature is useful in the world of ASA, where the way you do things in ASDM is rather different from what you'd do if you configure the same via CLI. However the situation is rather different in Mikrotik world- the way WinBox (and also WebFig) is organized closely resembles (with just a few minor exceptions) the CLI menu structure. So what's the point in duplicating the information that is already available?
Well, from my point of view this kind of feature is more nice to have as it can be useful when building scripts and providing the administrative user feedback how the same configuration can be done from CLI. But if this feature is added, this should not be displayed as default view.
Re: Feature Req. - Preview Commands
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 12:42 pm
by soonwai
This makes no sense to me.
Such feature is useful in the world of ASA, where the way you do things in ASDM is rather different from what you'd do if you configure the same via CLI. However the situation is rather different in Mikrotik world- the way WinBox (and also WebFig) is organized closely resembles (with just a few minor exceptions) the CLI menu structure. So what's the point in duplicating the information that is already available?
Fair enough opinion. Maybe have this feature with an option to disable. I think it will be helpful for me as I'm still learning RouterOS and seeing what I do in Winbox and its CLI equivalent might reinforce the learning process.