[c-nsp] NCS IOS-XR rant (was:Re: Internet border router recommendations and experiences)

[William McCall]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 6:45 AM Tarko Tikan via cisco-nsp <
cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net> wrote:

> hey,
>
> > XR for a number of years now has had the concept of a “golden ISO”.
> > It’s a single image either built by Cisco or customers can build
> > their own that include the base software and the SMUs in a single
> > image.  You just issue a single “install replace myiso.iso” and
> > that’s it.
>
> Well, not so in practice.
>
> You can't issue install from http:// or any other remote URL.
>
> You have to sit around and issue "install apply" after "install replace"
> is finished. Replace is async so you have to sit around and poll the
> process.
>
> After reboot you have to reconnect to device and issue "install commit".
>

My long-term solution to this problem is to install with iPXE. That lets
you do it via HTTP and without all the nonsense :)

A bit sad though that it cannot be done similarly cleanly via CLI.