Firmware Upgrades for Cloud Monitored Catalyst Switching

[ShawnHu]

Managing the IOS XE software of Cloud Monitored Catalyst switches from the Meraki Dashboard has been featured on both Meraki Launchpad and Cisco Meraki Platform demo environments.

Check out the following demo video to see how the image upgrade experience looks like. To run your own demo(without changing anything), visit the above demo environments and navigate to Organization > Firmware Upgrades > Schedule upgrades > Cloud Monitored.

For more info, please refer to the documentation IOS XE image upgrades (Cloud Monitoring for Catalyst switches).

[PhilipDAth]

This is going to make life much easier for a lot of small shops.

Is this like Meraki, in that it does the download but doesn't do the upgrade till 20 minutes after the assigned time?

Also, a warning to future people: once the upgrade starts on a C9300, it can easily take 20 minutes before the switch returns online and starts forwarding packets.  It's a horrible nerve-racking experience if you don't know this.