Setup Guide

Bare Metal Provisioning

Bare metal provisioning (BMP) is included as part of the Dell EMC Networking OS image and is supported on the S4810, S4820T, S3048–

ON, S3100 Series, S4048–ON, S5000, S5048F-ON, S6000, S6000-ON, S6010–ON, S6100–ON, Z9100–ON, Z9500, C9010, IOA, FN–

IOM, and MXL platforms.

Introduction

BMP improves operational eciency to your system by automatically loading pre-dened congurations and Dell EMC Networking OS

images using standard protocols such as dynamic host conguration protocol (DHCP) and common le transfer mechanisms.

Bare metal provisioning:

• Reduces the time to install and congure the network device.

• Helps eliminate conguration errors and ensure consistent congurations.

• Functions on a single system or on multiple systems.

• Includes simple network management protocol (SNMP) support.

• Includes support for pre- and post-conguration scripts.

How it Works

With BMP, the system retrieves a conguration le or a pre–conguration script indicated in the DHCP oer.

Using the pre–conguration script, you can:

• Verify the integrity of the boot image the DHCP oer downloads.

• Decide what type of congurations you want to apply based on your network reachability, port status, and neighbor discovery.

• Monitor your CPU, memory utilization, port trac status, or perform link and topology checks with the link layer discovery protocol

(LLDP).

• Retrieve and apply the conguration from a central repository.

If you disable BMP, Normal mode provides Autoexec support. Using the Autoexec feature, you can apply script–based congurations at

system start-up.

Prerequisites

Before you use BMP to auto-congure your Dell EMC Networking switch, congure the following:

• External DHCP server (required) — a network device oering conguration parameters.

• File server (required) — a network device for storing and servicing les.

• Domain name server (DNS) (optional) — a server that associates domain names in the network with IP addresses.

• Relay agent (optional) — an intermediary network device that passes messages between the DHCP clients and the DHCP server when

the server is not on the same subnet. It can also provide IP addresses for multiple subnets.

For more information, see Domain Name Server Settings and File Server Settings.

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