The only method I'm aware of is to make the images available via http(s) then download them to the system(s) using the system-image-fetch-package API for clustered Data ONTAP. I don't see an equivalent for 7-mode, but you could use the system-cli API to execute the CLI commands.
Hope that helps.
Andrew
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