Service Manual

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 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
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 do not support Ruby scripting.
Virtual Server Networking
Virtual server networking (VSN) provides the following:
• Automatic re-provisioning of virtual local area networks (VLANs) when you migrate virtual machines
(VMs).
• Support for multiple hypervisors, such as VMware and Citrix XenServer.
To ensure that network connectivity, quality of service (QoS), and security policies are maintained when you
migrate VMs, virtual data centers require a dynamic network infrastructure. To automatically re-provision VMs
and associated VLANs during virtual machine migration, VSN facilitates communication between the Dell
Networking switches and the VM management software.
As a result, VSN greatly simplifies many of the tasks associated with virtualized computing environments.
Network administrators can manage the network while server administrators can manage the servers. When
you migrate VMs, you do not have to manually reconfigure the VLAN.
VSN software supports the following hypervisors:
• VMware vSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0
• Citrix XenServer 5.6/6.0
REST API
Representational state transfer (REST)-application programming interface (API) provides tools that allow you
to manage Dell Networking OS switches by in-house or third-party system management tools. The program
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