Thanks guys I figured out how to do it in the end. It was indeed a combinations of the above ... View more

This does not work anymore Use this instead:  https://community.cisco.com/t5/nso-developer-hub-documents/create-a-device-using-rest/tac-p/3635277/highlight/true#M16   Then NED ID syntax in the XML file changes see the post linked above ... View more

Thanks for the reply Yale   After posting I did some more research and my conclusion was that I can't and I should not use the NEDs in the free demo for this. That NED that comes with the free version is old and it lacks most of the options that come after ned-settings. I do not have any of the below options. I learned that they exist from someone who tried to help me.    a admin@ncs(config)# devices device csr2 ned-settings cisco-ios? Possible completions: cisco-ios cisco-ios ned-settings cisco-ios-api Configure API (new API features/changes) cisco-ios-auto Configure auto (dynamic behaviour) cisco-ios-auto-prompts Pre-stored answers to device prompting questions. cisco-ios-cached-show-enable Enable cached-show cisco-ios-config-warning Device warning regexp entry list. cisco-ios-inject-answer Inject answer to question from device received when applying config (commit phase). cisco-ios-inject-command Inject command (before or after) specified config-line upon commit. cisco-ios-inject-config Inject config when reading from device. cisco-ios-inject-interface-config Additional config to insert first in an interface config. cisco-ios-log-verbose Enabled extra verbose logging in NED (for debugging) cisco-ios-police-format Configure the format(s) used by the device for police settings. cisco-ios-proxy-settings cisco-ios proxy ned-settings cisco-ios-replace-commit Replace (or filter) config when writing to device. cisco-ios-replace-config Replace (or filter) config when reading from device. cisco-ios-show-running-method Change method to show running-config cisco-ios-transaction-id-method Method of the cisco-ios NED to use for calculating a transaction id. cisco-ios-use-ip-mroute-cache-distributed Use ip mroute-cache distribute instead of ip mroute-cache cisco-ios-write-memory-method Change method to write config to memory cisco-ios-write-memory-setting Configure how and when an applied config is saved to persistent memory on the device. admin@ncs(config)# devices device csr2 ned-settings cisco-ios ... View more