Why do the Cisco Catalyst 2900XL/3500XL devices not support the image import from device operations?
A. The system software or the software image for 2900XL/3500XL devices is a TAR image that consists of the regular Cisco IOS Software image and HTML/gif files. When the image downloads to the switch, the image explodes into small individual files on the flash in different directories. The switch command-line interface (CLI) does not provide commands to combine all the files and make a new TAR file that SWIM can then upload. Therefore, there is no support for operations such as Add Image from Device, Baselining, and Synchronization.
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