Owner's Manual

Bare Metal Provisioning (BMP) - Config | 17
BMP Process Overview
When the system boots up in default BMP mode, the following items are requested:
1. Current (new) Dell Networking OS build image.
2. Configuration file or preconfiguration script (EXPECT, TCL, or Z-shell [ZSH]
script).
3. A list of checksums for all these components.
BMP Operations
BMP is supported on the user ports and management ports of a switch.
If your network has virtual link trunking (VLT) enabled on aggregator switches and
you are configuring the top-of-rack (ToR) switch to load BMP, configure the
aggregator switches with the
lacp ungroup member-independent vlt command if
the DHCP and file servers are reachable via the interface configured as part of VLT
link aggregation group (LAG).
BMP eases configuration in the following ways:
• Switch access is allowed through all ports (management and user ports) with or
without DHCP-based dynamic IP address configuration of a switch.
• Booting up in Layer 3 mode with interfaces already in No Shutdown mode and
basic protocols enabled to protect the system and the network.
• To access the configuration file or a preconfiguration script, use the DHCP offer.
• Download and execute scripts before configurations are applied allowing
preconfiguration checks on the switch.
Note: If SmartScripts package is already installed, then the preconfiguration scripts
can be in PERL or Python.
Note: The configuration file maintains normal BMP functionality when a
preconfiguration script is not sent.