Setup Guide
Open Automation Framework
The Open Automation framework provides an open, industry standards-based automation technology that simplies managing dynamic
virtual data centers and reduces risk and overhead.
The Dell EMC Networking S4810, S4820T, S3048–ON, S3100 Series, S4048–ON, S4048T–ON, S5000, S5048F-ON, S6000, S6000-ON,
S6010–ON, S6100–ON, Z9500, Z9100–ON, MXL, M IOA, and FN IOM platforms support the Open Automation framework.
With the Open Automation framework, resources in a virtualized data center are eciently managed without requiring manual
reconguration of virtual switches (vSwitches), virtual machines (VMs) on network servers, and VM control software each time there is a
network change. Automated provisioning of network resources during VM migration also maintains connectivity and security policies.
To automate monitoring and network device management, the Open Automation framework uses industry standard scripting languages,
such as Perl, Python, and Ruby. To adapt to required conguration changes, you can quickly allocate virtual resources. In addition, a
network device failure is more quickly detected and resolved; as a result, network uptime increases.
Automated bare metal provisioning (BMP) allows you to reduce operational overhead by automatically conguring Dell EMC Networking
switches, accelerating switch installation, and simplifying operating system upgrades.
Support for multiple, industry standard hypervisors, virtual switches, and system management tools ensure that automated solutions work
within an established data-center environment in which heterogeneous server, storage, and networking equipment interoperate. In addition,
Open Automation allows you to customize automated solutions for your current multivendor virtualization environment.
An onboard web server provides a user-friendly way to monitor and manage a data center network. To provide additional management
capability, HTTP and HTTPS daemons run on supported switches, such as the representational state transfer (REST) application
programming interface (API).
The Open Automation framework consists of the following network management tools:
• Bare metal provisioning
• Open management interface
• Puppet
• Smart scripting
• Virtual server networking
• Representational state transfer application programming interface
• Web server
To extend and add functionality to your Dell EMC Networking OS without requiring updates to the OS release, use these components
together or independently.
Figure 1. Open Automation Framework
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