libXO-ification - Why - and is it a symptom of deeper issues?

[Simon J. Gerraty]

Dan Partelly <dan_partelly at rdsor.ro> wrote:
> >> The ability to get machine parsable output from OS components is a big part of the success of Junos CLI, netconf etc.
> 
> Once you get machine parsable output, and feed it to your GUIs , WEB,
> other tools, and modify it, how do you feed it back to your underlying
> OS ?

We didn't make any changes to the way tools are run as there was no
need.

All requests - whether from CLI, NETCONF etc, are channeled into the MGD
(management daemon) to verify input, permissions etc (Junos implements
very fine grained permission system), and act accordingly.