Reinitiate Auto-discovery Lee Ballard Sylvia Tien
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Reinitiate Auto-discovery Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................. 4 Environment requirements ............................................................................................ 4 Auto-discovery reinitialize workflow ................................................................................ 4 Setting, updating, or deleting custom auto-discovery certificates ............................................
Reinitiate Auto-discovery Introduction The auto-discovery feature of Lifecycle Controller allows newly installed servers to automatically discover the remote management console that hosts the provisioning server. This also has the effect of notifying the management console there is a new server in the network that needs to be provisioned. The easiest way to implement this feature is to request that auto-discovery be enabled when you order your servers from Dell.
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Reinitiate Auto-discovery winrm i DownloadServerPublicKey http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cimschema/2/root/dcim/DCIM_LCService ?CreationClassName=DCIM_LCService +Name=DCIM:LCService +SystemCreationClassName=DCIM_ComputerSystem +SystemName=DCIM:ComputerSystem -u:[USER] -p:[PASSWORD] -r:https://[IPADDRESS]/wsman:443 -SkipCNCheck -SkipCACheck -encoding:utf-8 -a:basic -file:DownloadServerPublicKey.xml The input file DownloadServerPublicKey.
Reinitiate Auto-discovery . . DfcwL1vaburBpaOmj5HIBvGLzcWEz5iTuzc1AiU09dacT8/UyrO8KAVp5zu0b8bP BGUQbNBUqKsCPTKnNSNaDb+j0sQYB66B+9yZtaLPfdWkvob93oUUwj+CxTlxLGqe -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY---- [PASSWORD HERE] -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----MIIE2zCCA8OgAwIBAgIBADANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQQFADCBqTELMAkGA1UEBhMCVVMx CzAJBgNVBAgTAlRYMRQwEgYDVQQHEwtNYWluIFN0cmVldDEVMBMGA1UEChMMSm9l . . .
Reinitiate Auto-discovery The iDRAC discovers the provisioning server in one of three ways: DHCP vendor options, DNS SRV lookup, or default DNS entry. There is also a fourth option—manually configuring the provisioning server. Configuring the provisioning server address in the reinitialize request will bypass the discovery step, and the iDRAC will proceed directly to handshake.
Reinitiate Auto-discovery ?SystemCreationClassName=DCIM_ComputerSystem +CreationClassName=DCIM_LCService +SystemName=DCIM:ComputerSystem+Name=DCIM:LCService -u:[USERNAME] -p:[PASSWORD] -r:https://[IPADDRESS]/wsman -encoding:utf-8 -a:basic -file:SetAttribute.xml The input file SetAttribute.xml containing the parameters for the SetAttribute method is shown below: PAGE 11Reinitiate Auto-discovery winrm g "http://schemas.dell.com/wbem/wscim/1/cimschema/2/DCIM_LCString?InstanceID=LifecycleController.Embedded.1#LCAttr ibutes.1#ProvisioningServer+__cimnamespace=root/dcim" -u:[USERNAME] -p:[PASSWORD] -r:https://[IPADDRESS]/wsman -encoding:utf-8 -a:basic -SkipCNcheck –SkipCAcheck Clearing the provisioning server The following WSMAN command will clear the provisioning server on the iDRAC.
Reinitiate Auto-discovery The input file ReInitiateDHS.xml containing the parameters for the ReInitiateDHS method is shown below: ManualShelf © 2013-2024