Firmware Update Analysis vs ACI-Pre-Upgrade-Validation-Script

[johan-gonzalez]

In your experience, is there any difference between running the script and using the Firmware Update Analysis feature from Nexus Dashboard?

We need to perform an upgrade due to bugs and vulnerabilities. Our fabric is a single pod with a Remote Leaf pair.

We would be installing Nexus Dashboard Insights only for this verification.

[julian.bendix]

Installing NDI just for upgrade verifiaction sounds a bit overkill.

Yet it is fair to say that the Upgrad Verification in NDI does more than the script alone.
The script is quite amazing, checking through hardware, running states and configs if the software you are upgrading to is compatible.

But NDI does the same, including checking for bugs, vulns, field notices, etc, etc, etc.

Still, this can be done manually with a limited amout of effort. Getting NDI just for this use case is a bit overkill. Do you think you could use NDI otherwise too?

[Wassim Aouadi]

I agree with @julian.bendix. I also do not see an NDI use case here particulary because you mentioned that you already are upgrading anyway.

The script and the APIC built-in upgrade analysis check should be enough.