Try anybody out there updating NAC appliance via the buildin Inventory Manager Scripts ?
What was the experience ? Good - bad ?
I have customers with more than 8 or 10 NAC appliances - doing this with Netsight inventory Manager makes it more convenient ... (if it works properly).
Normaly i install new versions with root user but have CLI access with a different user name "cli-user". Does nac upgrade work with a non root user ?
This week i do a new try with XMC 8.4.1 and NAC Appliance 8.3.0 for this way of update..
It works,
but you have to keep this in mind:
Appliance image file is too big (2,2GB) for uploading image to XMC UI (limit at 2GB) directly. Use WinSCP or another SCP/SFTP Client to upload file to XMC
NAC Appliance update cannot be done local. Always a valid internet connection for NAC Appliance is needed. Choice like CLI based update between internet or local update is NOT given
Inventory manager UI shows only some progress for the image file copy task. After this the other installation steps are not shown (which is most time consumptioning). If there are later some problem - check these log files: /var/log/nacSoftwareUpgradeTo8.4.1.24.log /var/log/tag.log /var/log/dpkg.log
I just tested from 8.1.3.65 to 8.1.4.40 and it was with no issue. The upload of the BIN file to XMC was very long over the OneView (20+ minutes). The upload of the BIN to XMC through SCP was very quick (3 minutes).
I tried this (but I think with 7.x NMS versions) - file transfer took ages... so i came back to manual upgrading process, transfering upgrade files manually to the devices.
