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Learn how to install, configure, and operate the Vyatta Network Operating System (Vyatta NOS) and Orchestrator, which help drive our virtual networking and physical platforms portfolio.

show system commit

This command lets you review the configurations that are stored on the system and to quickly compare them with each other.

This is very useful for troubleshooting — untended changes to the system configuration are often the cause of the problem.

Example: show system commit

$OS_PROMPT$ show system commit
0 2021-02-26 12:48:24 by configd
1 2021-02-12 12:11:54 by alice
2 2021-02-12 12:11:09 by alice
3 2021-02-05 13:57:03 by alice
4 2021-02-05 13:43:41 by alice
5 2021-02-05 13:41:00 by alice
6 2021-02-05 13:39:45 by alice
7 2021-02-05 11:49:36 by alice
8 2021-02-03 13:26:49 by alice
9 2020-12-02 17:39:24 by alice
10 2020-12-02 16:32:28 by alice
11 2020-12-02 14:42:14 by alice
12 2020-12-02 14:35:01 by alice
13 2020-12-02 14:18:14 by configd
$OS_PROMPT$ show system commit diff 1
[edit interfaces dataplane dp0s5]
-disable

We can see that configuration 1 was the active configuration on February 12th, 2021 and it was committed by the user profile alice.

With diff 1 we're comparing the current system configuration to configuration 1. The output shows that in this comparison the current configuration lacks set interfaces dataplane dp0s5 disable.

Note: For more about this command see Ciena Vyatta Network OS Basic System Configuration Guide.