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11. Upgrading the Application and Routers

Brendan Choi1  
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Sydney, NSW, Australia
 

In this penultimate chapter, you will assemble the ten Python stand-alone applications developed in the last two chapters. This application, an exploratory Cisco IOS/IOS-XE upgrade application, encompasses pre-checks, IOS uploads, pre-reload checks, pre-reload configuration backups, reloads, and post-upgrade verification checks. Traditional network engineers have manually upgraded IOS on Cisco network devices for years. However, now you can develop and amalgamate various ...

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