Synchronised Data

Some Peering Manager models support automatic synchronisation of certain attributes from remote data sources, such as a git repository . Data from the authoritative remote source is synchronised locally in Peering Manager as data files.

Permissions

A user must be assigned the core | data source | Can synchronise data source permission in order to synchronise local files from a remote data source.

GitHub Authentication

For private git repositories hosted on GitHub, personal access tokens can be used to perform authentication. A personal access token should be set into the password field when creating/editing a data source.

The following features support the use of synchronised data:

• Configuration and e-mail templates
• Configuration context data
• Export templates

Device configuration supports retrieving template via a data source, but it also supports committing and pushing a rendered configuration to a data source.

A convenient CLI command called datasource is provided to synchronise data sources regularly. It takes a --all to synchronise all known data sources or the individual names of each data source to synchronise, space delimited.