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Hello there,
 
Not sure if everything was setup properly or not. I tried to follow video tutorials and almost nothing was as I was expecting. I followed the following approach:
1. Installing the latest eclipse for RCP and RAP developers version 1.4.1.20110909-1818
2. Installing new software: XDE SDK Plugin 1.0.372
3. Trying to follow the second video tutorial: 
4. First of all, PAL package not found. Where is it, there is no PAL.xpa anywhere in eclipse folder and subfolders
5. To overcome the problem, I installed showInterfaces package from the repository
6. Followed the instructions and applied all instructions to showInterface package instead of pal package
7. I got ready for running the procedure, however I faced the following problem: there was no appropriate option for initiating procedure arguments; i.e there was no "XDE procedure" option in Run configuration section. There are only: XDE function tests, XDE procedure Test, XDE/PAL function
8. To override this problem, I tried to enter the arguments manually within the xde, setting constant values "default" for the device ID, and e.g. "fa 0/0" for the interface.
9. I defined connection settings within the inventory view to connect to my router. tested the connectivity with device console.
10. Running my first xde: I receive the exception saying: Perl executable not found at C:\perl\bin\perl.exe (probably cannot interact with "default" device)
 
A general comment over all, there is a gap between video 1 and video 2. Is there any continuity between the videos?
 
Many thanks in advance for your listening. Looking forward to hearing from you.
 
thanks,
Majid

Hi Majid,

Thanks for the feedback and sorry its taken a few days to get back to you. The XDE SDK has changed quite a but since the tutorials were originally recorded. A new tutorial will be released shortly which I think will answer all your questions. In particular, this will cover the use of our Regex Parsing Language (RPL). RPL removes the need to use Perl and provides a set of graphical tools for parsing device config.

I'll send out an update when the tutorial has been published.

Thanks,
Stephen

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