As networks have grown, the industry has sought better ways in which to manage them at scale. Traditional network management systems are typically device-centric, particularly for network infrastructure. These systems take a top-down management approach and use a central server to push configuration into devices and to manage device state. With few exceptions, this approach provides no additional abstraction or functionally and fundamentally becomes a GUI representation of CLI configuration…
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