Users Guide

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Bare Metal Provisioning (BMP)
Bare metal provisioning (BMP) is supported on the Dell Networking OS platform.
In a data center network, BMP automates the conguration and updating of switches, ensuring standard congurations across the
installed devices.
You can congure autoconguration on a single switch or on multiple switches. BMP allows you to set up a stack with a minimum of
eort, but is also useful for quick conguration of a single switch.
For more information about BMP in Auto-Conguration mode, refer to the Open Automation Guide.
BMP 3.0 eases conguration by providing the following key features:
• Boot images and running congurations are specied in a DHCP server.
• Files are automatically downloaded from a le server and the switch applies.
• Switch access is allowed through all ports (management and user ports) with or without DHCP-based dynamic IP address
conguration of a switch.
• Booting up in Layer 3 mode with interfaces already in No Shutdown mode and some basic protocols enabled to protect the
system and the network.
• Supports pre-conguration and post-conguration scripts to automatically load predened congurations and Dell Networking
OS images using DHCP and common le transfer mechanisms.
reload-type
Congure a switch to reload as a DHCP client in BMP mode with all ports congured for Layer 3 trac or in Normal mode.
Syntax
reload-type [bmp | normal—reload {[auto—save {enable | disable}] | [config-
scr-download {enable | disable}] | [dhcp-timeout minutes]| retry-count
number | vendor-class-identifier description]
Use the disable bmp command to stop the BMP process.
Parameters
bmp (Default) Enable the BMP reload type. The system acts as a DHCP client and
downloads the Dell Networking OS image, conguration and boot les from a
specied DHCP server.
normal-reload Enable the normal reload type and disable BMP reload type. The system retrieves
the Dell Networking OS image and startup-conguration les from the ash after
performing a reload.
auto-save Congure the auto save option to save the downloaded conguration or script le.
They are not saved by default. When auto save is congured, downloaded
congurations are automatically saved to the startup conguration. Auto saving the
downloaded congurations also requires enabling the cong-scr-download
parameter. Downloaded scripts are automatically saved to the autoexec script.
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