Service Manual

Topics:

• Bare Metal Provisioning

• Smart Scripting

• Virtual Server Networking

• REST API

• Web Server

Bare Metal Provisioning

Bare metal provisioning (BMP) provides the following features.

• Automatic network switch conguration and automated conguration updates

• Enforced standard congurations

• Reduced installation time

• Simplied operating system upgrades

Automated BMP reduces operational expenses, accelerates switch installation, simplies upgrades, and increases network availability by

automatically conguring Dell Networking switches. BMP eliminates the need for a network administrator to manually congure a switch,

resulting in faster installation, elimination of conguration errors, and enforcement of standard congurations.

With BMP, after you install your switch, the switch searches the network for a dynamic host conguration protocol (DHCP) server. The

DHCP server provides the switch with an IP address and the location of a le server, such as TFTP. The le server maintains a

conguration le and an approved version of the Dell Networking OS. The switch automatically congures itself by loading and installing an

embedded Dell Networking OS image with the startup conguration le.

For more information about BMP, see the Dell Networking OS Conguration Guide for your platform (S4810, S4820T, S3048–ON, S4048–

ON, S5000, S6000, S6000-ON, C9010, S3100 series, Z9100–ON or Z9500 switches) or to the Dell Networking OS Conguration Guide for

the MXL 10/40GbE Switch IO Module for your MXL switch.

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.

Open Automation Framework