Service Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell Networking Open Automation Guide December 2015
- About this Guide
- Open Automation Framework
- Bare Metal Provisioning
- Introduction
- How it Works
- Prerequisites
- Industrial Standard Upgrades with BMP
- BMP Process Overview
- BMP Operations
- Configure BMP
- BMP Commands and Examples
- System Boot and Set-Up Behavior in BMP Mode
- BMP Mode: Boot and Set-UP Behavior
- DHCP Offer Vendor-Specific Option for BMP
- DHCP Offer Relay Option 82
- Software Upgrade Using BMP
- Apply Configurations Using BMP Scripts
- Using the Post-Configuration Script
- Using Auto-Execution Script (Normal Mode Only)
- Timers in Pre–configuration and Post–configuration Scripts
- Script Examples
- BMP Operations on Servers Overview
- File Server Settings
- Domain Name Server Settings
- BMP MIB Support
- Bare Metal Provisioning CLI
- Open Management Infrastructure
- Puppet
- Smart Scripting
- Overview
- Download the Smart Scripting Package
- Dell Proprietary Utilities
- Dell SmartScript Utilities
- SQLite
- NET SNMP Client
- Limits on System Usage
- Supported UNIX Utilities
- Creating a User Name and Password for Smart Scripting
- Logging in to a NetBSD UNIX Shell
- Downloading Scripts to a Switch
- Setting a Search Path for Scripts
- Scheduling and Executing Scripts
- Running a Script from the UNIX Shell
- Running Scripts with User Privileges
- Smart Scripting CLI
- disable
- execute
- mount nfs
- package install
- package uninstall
- script (run)
- script (stop/resume/clear/kill/unschedule)
- script event-handler
- script execute (EXEC mode)
- script execute (CONFIGURATION mode)
- script get
- script path
- script remove
- script trigger-event
- show packages
- show script
- start shell
- triggered-by
- switch script limit
- username (event handler)
- username
- Virtual Server Networking
- Virtual Server Networking CLI
- REST API
- HTTP and HTTPS
- XML
- Important Points to Remember
- REST Authentication
- Request Query Parameters
- Sample BGP Configurations
- HTTP Status Error Codes
- REST API — Protocol Data Unit (PDU) Structure
- Configurations
- Operational
- Operational Data for IPv6
- Management Information Base (MIB)
- IETF Interface Operations
- REST API Framework to Execute the CLIs
- Samples of the config-command
- Samples of the EXEC command
- Samples of the show-command
- REST API CLI
- Web Server with HTTP Support

Command History
This guide is platform-specific. For command information about other platforms,
see the relevant Dell Networking OS Command Line Reference Guide.
The following is a list of the Dell Networking OS version history for this command.
Version Description
9.6(0.0) Introduced on the S5000.
9.2(0.0) Introduced on the MXL.
8.3.19.0 Introduced on the S4820T.
8.3.8.0 Introduced on the S4810.
Usage Information
You can use the mode command to change how virtual-server information is
retrieved in an existing Hypervisor session.
The following log messages display when you use the Hypervisor mode check
option to retrieve configuration information on virtual servers:
Dec 1 04:57:48: %STKUNIT0-M:CP %VSNMGR-5-VSN_VLAN_DISCOVERY:
Te 0/35, Vlan:
4001-4008,4011-4012
Dec 1 04:56:46: %STKUNIT0-M:CP %VSNMGR-5-VSN_VLAN_WITHDRAWAL:
Te 0/35, Vlan:
4001-4008,4011-4012
package install
Install an Open Automation package, such as VSN. This command downloads the package from the
specified location and installs it in the internal flash memory on a switch.
S4810, S4820T, S5000, and MXL Switch
Syntax
package install location
Parameters
location
Enter the location where you want to install an Open
Automation package, where location is one of the following
values:
• flash://filename — Installs the VSN package file
stored in flash memory on the switch.
• ftp://userid:password@host-ip-address/file-
path — Logs in and installs VSN from a file stored on an
FTP server.
• tftp://host-ip-address/file-path — Installs VSN
from a file stored on a TFTP server.
• nfsmount://filepath — Copies from a file stored on
an NFS mount file system.
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