Question

A data center engineer needs to install a custom third-party monitoring agent (packaged as an RPM) directly on the Nexus 9000 switch's underlying Linux host so it runs in the native NX-OS environment rather than in an isolated container. Which on-box automation capability should the engineer enable and use to accomplish this?

Accepted Answer

The Bash shell (feature bash-shell), which provides access to the native Linux environment and dnf/yum for RPM package installation

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The Guest Shell, a secure Linux container (LXC) decoupled from the host that isolates installed software

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An EEM applet configured with a CLI action to trigger the RPM installer

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NX-API REST with a JSON-RPC payload that pushes the RPM binary to bootflash