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Upgrade NVOS or Firmware

Use the REST API to upgrade NVOS or CPLD firmware on your switches. First, create a switch profile, then upload the image and track the progress of the upgrade.

Requirements

  • Download the NVOS or firmware image from the NVIDIA Enterprise Support Portal.
  • Only the admin or read-write user (rw-user) can perform the steps in this section.

Upgrade NVOS

You can upgrade NVOS at either the switch-level or domain-level. Switch-level operations are prioritized before domain-level operations.

  1. Authenticate your credentials by creating a switch profile. Make a POST request to the /v1/switch-profiles endpoint that contains your username and password. Copy the ProfileID from the response body.

  2. Upload the NVOS image by making a POST request to the /v1/images endpoint with the ImageType field set to nvos. After the image is successfully uploaded, the response body returns an ImageID.

  3. Make a POST request to the /v1/upgrade-switch endpoint with UpgradeType field set to nvos; select switch-based upgrade and include the ProfileID and ImageID from the previous steps, in addition to the IP addresses of the switches you want to upgrade. Note that the ImageType must match the UpgradeType.

  4. If all initial validations succeed, the API returns an HTTP 202 Accepted response with a JSON body containing an operation ID. You can make a GET request to the /v1/operations/ endpoint to track the progress of the upgrade.

  1. Authenticate your credentials by creating a switch profile. Make a POST request to the /v1/switch-profiles endpoint that contains your username and password. Copy the ProfileID from the response body.

  2. Upload the NVOS image by making a POST request to the /v1/images endpoint with the ImageType field set to nvos. After the image is successfully uploaded, the response body returns an ImageID.

  3. Make a PATCH request to the /v1/domains/{id} endpoint to create an association between the profile ID from the first step and a given domain. The response body returns a DomainID.

  4. Make a POST request to the /v1/upgrade-switch endpoint with the UpgradeType field set to nvos; select domain-based upgrade and include the DomainID and ImageID from the previous steps. Note that the ImageType must match the UpgradeType.

  5. If all initial validations succeed, the API returns an HTTP 202 Accepted response with a JSON body containing an operation ID. You can make a GET request to the /v1/operations/ endpoint to track the progress of the upgrade.

Upgrade CPLD Firmware

You can upgrade firmware at either the switch-level or domain-level. Switch-level operations are prioritized before domain-level operations. After you upgrade the firmware, NetQ NVLink automatically validates the firmware to ensure version consistency.

  1. Authenticate your credentials by creating a switch profile. Make a POST request to the /v1/switch-profiles endpoint that contains your username and password. Copy the ProfileID from the response body.

  2. Upload the firmware image by making a POST request to the /v1/images endpoint with the ImageType field set to cpld. After the image is successfully uploaded, the response body returns an ImageID.

  3. Make a POST request to the /v1/upgrade-switch endpoint with UpgradeType field set to cpld; select switch-based CPLD firmware upgrade and include the ProfileID and ImageID from the previous steps, in addition to the IP addresses of the switches you want to upgrade. Note that the ImageType must match the UpgradeType.

  4. If all initial validations succeed, the API returns an HTTP 202 Accepted response with a JSON body containing an operation ID. You can make a GET request to the /v1/operations/ endpoint to track the progress of the upgrade.

  1. Authenticate your credentials by creating a switch profile. Make a POST request to the /v1/switch-profiles endpoint that contains your username and password. Copy the ProfileID from the response body.

  2. Upload the firmware image by making a POST request to the /v1/images endpoint with the ImageType field set to cpld. After the image is successfully uploaded, the response body returns an ImageID.

  3. Make a PATCH request to the /v1/domains/{id} endpoint to create an association between the profile ID from the first step and a given domain. The response body returns a DomainID.

  4. Make a POST request to the /v1/upgrade-switch endpoint with the UpgradeType field set to cpld; select domain-based CPLD firmware upgrade and include the DomainID and ImageID from the previous steps. Note that the ImageType must match the UpgradeType.

  5. If all initial validations succeed, the API returns an HTTP 202 Accepted response with a JSON body containing an operation ID. You can make a GET request to the /v1/operations/ endpoint to track the progress of the upgrade.

Validate Version Consistency

After an upgrade is finished, NetQ NVLink automatically performs a validation to ensure that all devices are running the same NVOS or firmware versions. You can view versions across a domain by making a GET request to /v1/validations/fw-version or applying the FW_VERSIONS filter to the /v1/kpis/ endpoint. See Collect KPIs for examples that use filters.

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