Setup Guide

NOTE: The Open Automation framework is seen as Open Automation in the rest of this document.
Topics:
• Bare Metal Provisioning
• Smart Scripting
• Virtual Server Networking
• REST API
• Web Server
Bare Metal Provisioning
Bare metal provisioning (BMP) provides the following features.
• Automatic network switch conguration and automated conguration updates
• Enforced standard congurations
• Reduced installation time
• Simplied operating system upgrades
Automated BMP reduces operational expenses, accelerates switch installation, simplies upgrades, and increases network availability by
automatically conguring Dell EMC Networking switches. BMP eliminates the need for a network administrator to manually congure a
switch, resulting in faster installation, elimination of conguration errors, and enforcement of standard congurations.
With BMP, after you install your switch, the switch searches the network for a dynamic host conguration protocol (DHCP) server. The
DHCP server provides the switch with an IP address and the location of a le server, such as TFTP. The le server maintains a
conguration le and an approved version of the Dell EMC Networking OS. The switch automatically congures itself by loading and
installing an embedded Dell EMC Networking OS image with the startup conguration le.
For more information about BMP, see the Dell EMC Networking OS Conguration Guide for your platform (S4810, S4820T, S3048–ON,
S4048–ON, S4048T–ON, S5000, S5048F-ON, S6000, S6000-ON, S6010–ON, S6100–ON, C9010, S3100 series, Z9100–ON and Z9500
switches), the Dell EMC Networking OS Conguration Guide for the MXL 10/40GbE Switch IO Module for your MXL switch, the Dell
PowerEdge Conguration Guide for the M I/O Aggregator for your IOA aggregator, or the Dell PowerEdge FN I/O Module Conguration
Guide for your FN-IOM aggregator.
Smart Scripting
Smart Scripting provides the following:
• Support for industry standard languages, such as Perl, Python, and Ruby, avoiding the need to learn a new proprietary scripting
language.
• The ability to customize device monitoring and management to suit your network needs, including custom maintenance tasks, discovery
programs, and event logging for faster problem resolution.
Smart scripting increases network availability and manageability by allowing network administrators to deploy custom monitoring and
management scripts on Dell EMC Networking switches. Using custom scripts, network administrators can implement version control
systems, automatically generate alerts, create custom logging tools, and automate management of network devices. Any function that you
can perform through the Dell EMC Networking OS command line interface (CLI), you can perform with smart scripting.
The scripting environment (Expect, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, UNIX and ZSH shell scripts) makes it easy for IT administrators to quickly
develop scripts.
NOTE
: S3100 series does not support the Ruby scripting and also the Python scripts that import the threading module.
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