Updating a lot of switches at once

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I have a lot of switches that I need to update all at once for a bit of a re-IP/re-VLAN/STP upgrade of the larger network. These switches are at remote sites hanging off cnWave gear. Ideally I’d like to modify or scp out a startup-config then reboot them. The cnmaestro templating is out of the question as it is just a copy-paste to running conf mode, takes no consideration of existing config at all. The switch groups also doesn’t work as it doesn’t include port config at all.

I tried copy command with SCP to startup but it claims it’s invalid even if I’ve copied directly from a device.

I tried backing up a config, modifying then using config restore but it’s not in sensible configuration text but rather SNMP OIDs with a checksum at the bottom to prevent modification…

Is there some way to do this?

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The way I ended up accomplishing this is by using a spare switch to apply the config for each of my switches then use copy startup-config scp://blah to store the config. Then on the switches I want to update I ran copy scp://blah startup-config followed by reload in 000:20 and it worked.

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