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About this Guide

This document describes the components and uses of the Open Automation Framework designed to run on

the Dell Networking operating system (OS).

Open Automation includes support for:

• Bare metal provisioning (BMP)

• Open management infrastructure (OMI)

• Puppet

• Representational state transfer (REST) application programming interface (API)

• Smart scripting

• Virtual server networking (VSN)

• Web server

Topics:

• Audience

• Open Automation Features and Supported Platforms

• Conventions

• Related Documents

Audience

This document is intended for data center managers and network administrators responsible for virtualization

and system management. You must have a basic knowledge on virtualization technology and networking to

work with the Open Automation framework.

NOTE

: Although this document contains information about protocols, it does not provide complete

information about protocol configuration and usage. For this information, see the documents listed in