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6.3 Auto Discovery Workflow
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Target Server
DHCP Server DNS Server Provisioning
Server
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Figure 1 - Auto Discovery Network Diagram
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6.4 Basic Setup
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The discovery of a management console (with an Auto-Discovery provisioning server) by a newly installed
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server consists of several alternatives. One of the following must be implemented for this feature to work:
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 Provisioning server address must manually be set in iDRAC settings.
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 The DHCP server must specify a list of comma separated provisioning server addresses (and
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optionally ports) of the management console(s)
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in a vendor specific option (option 43) data in
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response to the DHCP REQUEST sent out by iDRAC. This can be a full qualified domain name,
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hostname or IP.
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 The DNS server must specify a service option _dcimprovsrv that specifies the hostnames and
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ports that resolves to IP addresses.
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 The DNS server must specify an IP address for a server with the following known name:
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DCIMCredentialServer.
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NOTE: The IP address specified is the location of a service that will respond to an SSL connection setup, and
provide server WS-Man login credentials; it is intended that the remote management console with an Auto-Discovery
provisioning server performs this duty. However, it is possible that a completely independent service on a different
machine could fill this role.