Owner's Manual

42 | Bare Metal Provisioning (BMP) - Config
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File Server Settings
Set up a file server and ensure connectivity.
To allow file transfers to the switch, configure the file server that holds the boot and
configuration files. The system recognizes HTTP, HTTPS, SFTP, TFTP, FTP, USB,
and Flash URLs.
For example:
• tftp://server ip or name/filename
• ftp://user:passwd@serverip or name//mypath/Dell-A.B.C.D.bin
• flash://filename
• http://host[:port]/file-path
• https://[<user:pass>@]host[:port]/file-path
• sftp://user:passwd@server//path/filename
• usbflash://path/filename
When loading the Dell Networking OS image, if the Dell Networking OS image on
the server is different from the image on the local Flash, the system downloads the
image from the server onto the local Flash and reloads using that image. If the Dell
Networking OS image on the server is the same image, the system loads the
configuration file, if present, or the startup-config without downloading a new image.
Domain Name Server Settings
To determine the host name applied in the switch startup configuration, when no
configuration file is retrieved from the DHCP server, set up a domain name server
(DNS).
The DNS server is contacted only when no configuration file is contained in a DHCP
server response and the host name is not resolved from the network-config file on the
switch.