While the preferred way of integrating a new or legacy system with ConfD is to adapt all applications to the ConfD CDB, Data Provider, and Management Agent APIs (CDB API, DP API, and MAAPI), this is not always possible for a legacy systems. For these cases, using CDB as the configuration database and synchronizing with the legacy DB using the ConfD CDB API and MAAPI is preferable.
This in-depth application note covers how ConfD can be introduced alongside the existing legacy management infrastructure and synchronized with CDB, so that ConfD CDB and the legacy management system will always have the same view of the configuration.