Owner's Manual

Bare Metal Provisioning (BMP) - Config | 21
The following message displays, when BMP is about to start:
Message 1
This device is configured to enter Bare Metal Provisioning (BMP).
BMP will now attempt to download an image, configuration file or boot script
using DHCP.
You can interact with the switch only via the console. If you open the console and
enter any key(s), the inputs will be discarded and following message will be
displayed and it waits for user input.
Message 2
This device is in Bare Metal Provisioning (BMP) mode.
BMP is attempting to download an image, configuration file or boot
script using DHCP.
To continue with the standard manual interactive mode, it is
necessary to abort BMP.
Press A to abort BMP now.
Press C to continue with BMP.
Press L to toggle BMP syslog and console messages.
Press S to display the BMP status.
[A/C/L/S]:
• Enter S to display the BMP status (show boot bmp). If you enter another key
while BMP is running, it displays the same message (Message 2) and repeats the
process.
• Enter A to stop BMP. The following actions occur:
— Aborts BMP
— Disables BMP for the next reload (which will be a normal reload)
— Initializes the BMP context variable in NOVRAM
— Applies the startup configuration, if exists, else the default
configuration
• Enter C to continue with the BMP process. If you enter another key while BMP
is running, it displays the same message (Message 2) and repeats the process.
• Enter L to toggle the BMP syslog messages. By default, the messages are
disabled. The first L enables the BMP messages and the second L disables the
BMP messages.
Note: In Factory-default context, no other input except A/C/L/S is accepted by the
console.
Note: If the switch starts in Factory-default context in the next reload, the BMP
messages will be disabled again irrespective of the L status in the previous session.