Users Guide

Auto discovery and handshake prerequisites
• Prior to running auto discovery and handshake, ensure that iDRAC and Lifecycle Controller firmware and BIOS versions meet the
minimum recommendations.
• CSIOR must have run at least once on the system or iDRAC.
Hardware configuration failure
• Before initiating a deployment task, ensure that the system has completed CSIOR and is not in the process of rebooting.
• BIOS configuration should be run in clone mode so that the reference server is an identical system.
• Some controllers do not allow creation of a RAID 0 array with one drive. This feature is supported only on high-end controllers, and the
application of such a hardware profile can cause failures.
Enabling auto discovery on newly purchased system
The auto discovery feature of a host system is not enabled by default; instead, enablement must be requested at the time of purchase. If
auto discovery enablement is requested at the time of purchase, DHCP is enabled on the iDRAC and admin accounts are disabled. It is not
necessary to configure a static IP address for the iDRAC. It gets one from a DHCP server on the network. To use the auto discovery
feature, a DHCP server or a DNS server (or both) must be configured to support the discovery process. CSIOR should already be run
during the factory process.
If auto discovery was not requested at the time of purchase, it can be enabled as follows:
1. During the boot routine, press Ctrl+E.
2. In the iDRAC setup window, enable the NIC (blade servers only).
3. Enable Auto-Discovery.
4. Enable DHCP.
5. Disable admin accounts.
6. Enable Get DNS server address from DHCP.
7. Enable Get DNS domain name from DHCP.
8. In the Provisioning Server field, enter:
<OpenManage Integration virtual appliance IPaddress>:4433
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