Setup Guide

Contents
1 About this Guide.............................................................................................................................................9
Audience..............................................................................................................................................................................9
Open Automation Features and Supported Platforms ................................................................................................. 9
Conventions...................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Related Documents.......................................................................................................................................................... 10
2 Open Automation Framework....................................................................................................................... 12
Bare Metal Provisioning................................................................................................................................................... 13
Smart Scripting.................................................................................................................................................................13
Virtual Server Networking............................................................................................................................................... 14
REST API........................................................................................................................................................................... 14
Web Server........................................................................................................................................................................14
3 Bare Metal Provisioning................................................................................................................................15
Introduction....................................................................................................................................................................... 15
How it Works.....................................................................................................................................................................15
Prerequisites......................................................................................................................................................................15
Industry Standard Upgrades with BMP.........................................................................................................................16
BMP Process Overview...................................................................................................................................................16
BMP Operations............................................................................................................................................................... 16
Congure BMP..................................................................................................................................................................17
BMP Mode.................................................................................................................................................................. 18
Normal Context...........................................................................................................................................................18
Normal Mode.............................................................................................................................................................. 19
BMP Commands and Examples......................................................................................................................................19
System Boot and Set-up Behavior in BMP Mode........................................................................................................19
BMP Mode - Boot and Set-up Behavior....................................................................................................................... 21
Reload Without a DHCP Server Oer..................................................................................................................... 21
Reload with a DHCP Server Oer Without a Dell EMC Networking OS Oer..................................................22
Reload with a DHCP Server Oer and no Conguration File...............................................................................22
Reload with a DHCP Server Oer Without a DNS Server................................................................................... 23
DHCP Oer Vendor-Specic Option for BMP.............................................................................................................24
DHCP Oer Relay Option 82..........................................................................................................................................24
Software Upgrade Using BMP.......................................................................................................................................25
Apply Congurations Using BMP Scripts..................................................................................................................... 25
Pre–conguration Scripts.........................................................................................................................................25
Auto–execution Scripts.............................................................................................................................................26
Post–conguration Scripts.......................................................................................................................................26
Using the Pre–conguration Script......................................................................................................................... 26
Using the Post-conguration Script.............................................................................................................................. 27
Using Auto-Execution Script - Normal Mode Only......................................................................................................27
Timers in Pre–conguration and Post–conguration Scripts.................................................................................... 28
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