Saving Config via RESTCONF on NXOS

[techvisionuhd]

Hi, 

A bit new to network programmability. I have a question regarding RESTCONF on NXOS 9.3.3. I'm trying to do what seems to me should be a simple task of saving the running config to the startup config, but I've been unable to figure this out via RESTCONF.

I've looked at the CIsco-NX-OS-device.yang model, and I see under the rpcs container that there's an item for copy_running_config_src, and I see the same reference for this in https://developer.cisco.com/docs/cisco-nexus-3000-and-9000-series-nx-api-rest-sdk-user-guide-and-api-reference-release-9-3x.

# NETCONF payload
<copy_running_config_src xmlns="http://cisco.com/ns/yang/cisco-nx-os-device">
     <startup-config/>
</copy_running_config_src>

However, trying to interact with these rpcs like the System container isn't working. I've been able to execute this via NETCONF, but am unable to do so for RESTCONF.

Questions I have are: 

• Does RESTCONF in NXOS implement the RPCs defined in the module?
• If so, could someone let me know to what URI I should be sending my requests to? With IOS XE, there's a separate URI for the RPCs (HOST/restconf/operations), so wondering if this is also the case with NXOS

[Alexander Stevenson]

Hi @techvisionuhd,

          I'm not an expert in with NX-OS, but I want to offer some resources I found, which may help you:

• Cisco NX-OS RESTConf - RESTCONF Agent
• (External GitHub Repo) - Browsing NX-OS 9k installed yang models with RESTconf (discusses which URI to send requests to)
• (External Blog) Exploring IOS-XE and NX-OS based RESTCONF Implementations with YANG and Openconfig (discusses the RPCs)

I hope this helps!

[techvisionuhd]

Thanks Alex. However, those resources were useful for the RESTCONF cisco-nx-os-device module and the openconfig modules. However, the copy_running_config_src rpc doesn't seem to follow the same URI scheme that I use to interact with other components of those two modules. 

Strangely, I can't find any documentation online regarding using the copy_running_config_src action via RESTCONF, and the only references I see are for Netconf. I'm hoping if you could confirm whether this feature just isn't supported in RESTCONF on NX-OS?

And if it isn't supported, what is the suggested way to save the configuration on NX-OS via RESTCONF?