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Enabling Auto-Discovery
You can manually initiate Auto-Discovery using the iDRAC console on the server. You can enable Auto-
Discovery automatically by ordering it shipped from factory in the enabled state, (See Ordering Auto-
Discovery enabled systems ), or you can initiated from a WSM-MAN command. For Auto-Discovery to
run, all administrative accounts on the iDRAC must be disabled.
Timeout limit
When power is applied to the server and Auto-Discovery is properly enabled, the server attempts to
contact the provisioning service until it successfully completes or until it has reached the timeout limit
of 24 hours. If the provisioning server cannot contact the server within the timeout limit, you can
manually re-initiate Auto-Discovery from the iDRAC Configuration Utility. When you attempt to use
Auto-Discovery with a large number of servers, then you must first test the process with a single server
or small sampling of servers to avoid having to manually re-initiate Auto-Discovery if the 24 hour
timeout is reached.
Manually configuring a PowerEdge 11
th
Generation server for Auto-Discovery
To manually configure a PowerEdge 11
th
Generation server for Auto-Discovery, do the following:
1. Press <Ctrl-e> when prompted within 5 seconds during system start-up.
2. In the iDRAC Configuration Utility page, enable NIC (for modular system only).
3. Enable DHCP.
4. Navigate to LAN Parameters.
5. Select Domain Name from DHCP.
6. Select On.
7. Select DNS Server from DHCP.
8. Select On.
9. Navigate to LAN user configuration.
10. Select Account Access.
11. Select Disabled. This disables the default administrative account.
12. Select Auto-Discovery.
13. Select Enable to enable the Auto-Discovery feature
14. Save and Exit iDRAC6 Configuration Utility.
15. Restart your system.