A IOS register database and updater

Hi andrew_watson,

We are definitely aware of a feature request like this. And yes, it's a challenge if you want to make it user-friendly and safe.

Jiri

that's fair enough. though to start with could we look at setting up the register database first and then later on down the track look at the automation possibilities?

that's fair enough. though to start with could we look at setting up the register database first and then later on down the track look at the automation possibilities?

Setting up the register database may well be the biggest challenge. While the firmware upgrade feature itself is something we can directly influence, having the IOS database means Cisco is willing to share it in a reasonable format. And although Cisco is one of our partners, we are competitors at the same time...

For starters, could we do something to allow us to fill out this information for each model? (as opposed to filling it out for each node?)

For instance, I have a custom node property (let's call it custom_model), set up with the "restrict values" option which has been set up for the switch model number (machine type pulled from SNMP just isn't right most of the time), something like "WS-C3750G-48TS-S" and "WS-C4500X-16". What I would like is to have another table that shows each one of the unique (restricted) values from custom_model and allow me to assign it an approved latest IOS firmware version. Maybe even provide a LastChecked date field, and quite possibly the ability to put a link to the download page.

The reason I am looking to do it this way is I want to be able to compare what is currently running on the switch to what I have checked is currently available on Cisco's website. Yes I understand that getting that information directly from Cisco via an API or what have you isn't feasible, so maybe doing something as simple as manually filling out this information would be worth it. We have previously done this in an excel spreadsheet, but you can probably understand why it would be so much better to do this automatically using Orion.