Poap to convert to ACI mode

[mmacdonald70]

I have a bunch of Nexus 9k switches that need to be converted from NXOS to ACI mode.  I would rather not do it manually so I started wondering if I could use POAP to perform the switch.  Since I have never really used it, I thought I would ask the community before I spend a lot of time setting up a lab for it.

[gmonroy]

mmacdonald70,

    Switches running ACI mode do not support POAP.

That aside, I am not personally familiar with the capabilities of POAP. Assuming you get a full range of commands and image initializations on Standalone NXOS with POAP, that makes me think the only pieces you could potentially automate through POAP are:

1. Grab the ACI image from some tftp server and move it into bootflash
2. run the "no boot nxos" command
3. reload

After that, one would still need to console into the switch while in loader and manually boot into the ACI image:

> boot bootflash:aci-image-name

Maybe someone else with more POAP experience can think of something else?

-Gabriel

[ryanbwn]

What about "no boot nxos" then "boot aci bootflash:<aci-image>" then "reload". It works manually so I'd assume it would work using POAP.

[Nagaraj Arunkumar]

This is now supported in ACI  as an automated process - please see https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/dcn/aci/apic/5x/getting-started/cisco-apic-getting-started-guide-52x/apic-gsg-new-and-changed-information-52x.html