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SD-WAN Bootstrap

Device Typefilename
hardware deviceciscosdwan_cloud_init.cfg
software deviceciscosdwan.cfg

USB

Requirements

  • Device must be unprovisioned

The Manager can create a bootable USB drive.

CLI Paste method

This can be used to paste in a bootstrap so you can just erase and reload the device

tclsh
puts [open "bootflash:ciscosdwan.cfg" w+] {
!
! Certificates in the top of this file.
!
! Use a terminal client like SecureCRT
!
! Enable characters and line send delay if you need to.
!
}

Python webserver

This uses python to start a small webserver to copy the bootstrap via HTTP.

0.0.0.0 means bind on all IPs.

python2

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

python3

python -m http.server 8000 --bind 0.0.0.0
  1. Using the Cisco CLI, copy the file from your python webserver.
copy http://10.0.0.1:8000/ciscosdwan.cfg bootflash:/ciscosdwan.cfg

Cisco - SD-WAN Getting Started Guide

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