When policies dictate that Access ports, Trunk ports or Shutdown ports must conform with certain templates, there is no way to automate a recursive check of each interface submode and apply the appropriate template. For example:
Interface FastEthernet 0/24
description Access port example
switchport access vlan 200
switchport mode access
no cdp enable
spanning-tree portfast
spanning-tree bpdufilter enable
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
description Trunk port example
switchport trunk encapsulation do1q
switchport trunk native vlan 999
switchport mode trunk
!
interface GigabitEtehrnet0/2
description shutdown port example
switchport access vlan 666
shutdown
I would like to have a method that would
1) identify with a regular expression the start of a block
- "interface .*?Ethernet.*?"
2) have an option to identify the block by some element that will establish which template to use
- "exist [^shutdown$]" AND "absent [^description Keep turned on.*]"
3) identify with a regular expression the end of a block
- "^!$"
4) have template that is checked within just that block
i.e. if the port is hard shutdown, it should have no user configuration applied to it.
5) Option to check just the first instance of the block, or all instances of the block within a given devices' configuration.
