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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]:

NOTE: In the Factory-Default context, the console only accepts A/C/L/S input.

• Enter S to display the BMP status (show boot bmp). If you enter another key while BMP is running, it displays the previous message

and repeats the process.

• Enter A to stop BMP. The following actions occur:

• Aborts BMP

• Disables BMP for the next reload (which is a Normal reload)

• Initializes the BMP context variable in NOVRAM

• Applies the startup conguration, if it exists, or the Default conguration

• Enter C to continue with the BMP process. If you enter another key while BMP is running, it displays the previous message and repeats

the process.

• Enter L to toggle the BMP syslog messages. By default, the messages are disabled. The rst L enables the BMP messages and the

second L disables the BMP messages.

NOTE: If the switch starts in Factory-Default context in the next reload, the BMP messages are disabled again irrespective of the

L status in the previous session.

Normal Context

To auto–congure a switch, before you use BMP mode, rst congure a DHCP, DNS, and le server in the network.

NOTE

: By default, a syslog severity level greater than two does not display. Enable syslog before applying the pre–conguration

script which helps identify any conguration errors.

To help congure a new factory loaded switch, the switch boots up in the default BMP mode. You can recongure the switch to reload

either in BMP mode or Normal mode.

NOTE

: To apply the startup conguration, cancel the default BMP setup using the stop bmp command from the console. To

disable BMP for the next reload, use the boot-type normal-reload command in reload-type conguration mode.

Normal Mode

When reloaded in Normal mode, the switch boots up with the management port in No Shutdown mode.

If the management IP address is present in the start-up conguration le, it is assigned to the management interface. If the management IP

address is not present in the start-up conguration le, no IP address is assigned. You can connect to the management port with an IP

address on the same network and log in to the system through a telnet or SSH session.

To congure a switch to reload using Normal mode, follow this step.

• Congure a switch to use Normal mode.

RELOAD – TYPE mode

boot-type normal-reload

• DHCP Conguration — Normal mode does not require a separate DHCP server conguration.

• Dell Networking OS Image Retrieval — The Dell Networking OS image is loaded from the local ash memory.

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