Migrate switches from different networks to a single network

Question

Hello, I have a question on migrating C3750 switches between networks.
Our current situation is that we have two networks.
We control the cores on both networks but do not controll all the edge devices on both networks.
We can not access the IOS and configuration on a number of switches because we don't have the login information for those.
In the future if we are to take control of those edge devices how can we modify the IOS and configuration settings for multiple switches at one time?
Within the core we can modify vlans, destroy and recreate to suit our purposes, so that's easy enough.
We would rather not have to visit each and every switch and do this manually as there are over 40 switches and only 2 admins.
Manually doing this requires using the password recovery option method to change the IOS.
Once done we should be able to update the config via CISCOWorks on all the devices,
Or we could do it the other way around and update the config and then update the IOS via CISCOWorks.
Our wish is to attempt to do both via CISCOWorks or some other automated method.
ej

Answer 1

Hi,
Can this be acheived by normal TMS configuration (without Extended Transport Control)? If yes how?
Yes.
Understand the following basic relationship behind transporting chagnes using TMS
....Repository Objects ->are assigned to-> Package ->are assigned to->Single Transport Layer ->is assigned to-> Single Transport Route -> Target System.
The basic concept behind standard Transport Control is that every repository object in Source System (e.g Dev-System) is assigned (via a package) to a certain transport layer, it follows that a change request can only have one target system. So, you can transport change requests from multiple clients of Development System, which you can import into QUA system's clients upon release.
With the standard Transport control program, it is not possible to create two transport routes with the same transport layer from one SAP System. Thus, The extended Transport Control program is used for transporting the changes based on Client specific Transport Routes by using the concept of Transport Group. Using this, one can transport changes to multiple systems, multiple clients using the same transport layer.
Regards
Bhavik G. Shroff