We are trying to develop a more efficient way of replacing a switch that has failed. The idea is to push the failed switch's config into a hot spare and then deploy the hot spare in its place. The process in NCM pushes the config to the running-config, which has its challenges, like when the config changes the IP address of the switch and then the NCM connection fails. We'd like to push the config to the startup-config file and then reboot. Is there a way to do this within NCM? Or perhaps people are replacing failed switches in other ways with NCM?
