Concept Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC Networking Open Automation Guide 9.14.1.0 November 2018
- About this Guide
- Open Automation Framework
- Bare Metal Provisioning
- Introduction
- How it Works
- Prerequisites
- Industry 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
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- 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 EMC Environment Variables
- Dell EMC Proprietary Utilities
- Dell EMC SmartScript Utilities
- SQLite
- NET SNMP Client
- Limits on System Usage
- Supported UNIX Utilities
- Creating a Username and Password for Smart Scripting
- Logging in to a NetBSD UNIX Shell
- Downloading Scripts to a Switch
- Network File System (NFS)
- 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 clear-all
- package install
- package uninstall
- script (run)
- script (stop/resume/clear/kill/unschedule)
- script event-handler
- script execute (EXEC mode)
- script execute
- script get
- script path
- script remove
- script trigger-event
- show packages
- show script
- start shell
- triggered-by
- switch script limit
- username (event handler)
- username
- SNMP MIBs
- 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
Open Automation Framework
The Open Automation framework provides an open, industry standards-based automation technology that simplies managing dynamic
virtual data centers and reduces risk and overhead.
The Dell EMC Networking S4810, S4820T, S3048–ON, S3100 Series, S4048–ON, S4048T–ON, S5000, S5048F-ON, S6000, S6000-ON,
S6010–ON, S6100–ON, Z9500, Z9100–ON, MXL, M IOA, and FN IOM platforms support the Open Automation framework.
With the Open Automation framework, resources in a virtualized data center are eciently managed without requiring manual
reconguration of virtual switches (vSwitches), virtual machines (VMs) on network servers, and VM control software each time there is a
network change. Automated provisioning of network resources during VM migration also maintains connectivity and security policies.
To automate monitoring and network device management, the Open Automation framework uses industry standard scripting languages,
such as Perl, Python, and Ruby. To adapt to required conguration changes, you can quickly allocate virtual resources. In addition, a
network device failure is more quickly detected and resolved; as a result, network uptime increases.
Automated bare metal provisioning (BMP) allows you to reduce operational overhead by automatically conguring Dell EMC Networking
switches, accelerating switch installation, and simplifying operating system upgrades.
Support for multiple, industry standard hypervisors, virtual switches, and system management tools ensure that automated solutions work
within an established data-center environment in which heterogeneous server, storage, and networking equipment interoperate. In addition,
Open Automation allows you to customize automated solutions for your current multivendor virtualization environment.
An onboard web server provides a user-friendly way to monitor and manage a data center network. To provide additional management
capability, HTTP and HTTPS daemons run on supported switches, such as the representational state transfer (REST) application
programming interface (API).
The Open Automation framework consists of the following network management tools:
• Bare metal provisioning
• Open management interface
• Puppet
• Smart scripting
• Virtual server networking
• Representational state transfer application programming interface
• Web server
To extend and add functionality to your Dell EMC Networking OS without requiring updates to the OS release, use these components
together or independently.
Figure 1. Open Automation Framework
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