Using ProLiant Essentials Rapid Deployment Pack for scripted blade based switch configuration

Solution summary
The supplied solution is designed to use RDP server-side scripts to automate the VLAN switch
configuration of the interconnect switch as part of deploying an OS to an associated ProLiant BL
server.
The solution involves adding a server-side script task that configures the associated interconnect
switches to an existing RDP deployment job. A server-side script task is necessary because the target
server cannot communicate with the switch, and even if it could, it would not know with which switch
to communicate. The example task calls a Perl script that uses a data file to determine with which
switches to communicate and how to talk to them. Perl is an open source scripting language available
on many operating systems including Win32 (a Microsoft Windows based program) and Linux. The
script uses the Rack/Enclosure/Bay information of the blade server being deployed to determine
which switches to configure.
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Figure 3 illustrates how server-side scripts provide the enhanced capability to integrate VLAN switch
configuration within a deployment job.
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