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
- 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 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
NOTE: The Open Automation framework is seen as Open Automation in the rest of this document.
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 conguration and automated conguration updates
• Enforced standard congurations
• Reduced installation time
• Simplied operating system upgrades
Automated BMP reduces operational expenses, accelerates switch installation, simplies upgrades, and increases network availability by
automatically conguring Dell EMC Networking switches. BMP eliminates the need for a network administrator to manually congure a
switch, resulting in faster installation, elimination of conguration errors, and enforcement of standard congurations.
With BMP, after you install your switch, the switch searches the network for a dynamic host conguration 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
conguration le and an approved version of the Dell EMC Networking OS. The switch automatically congures itself by loading and
installing an embedded Dell EMC Networking OS image with the startup conguration le.
For more information about BMP, see the Dell EMC Networking OS Conguration Guide for your platform (S4810, S4820T, S3048–ON,
S4048–ON, S4048T–ON, S5000, S6000, S6000-ON, S6010–ON, S6100–ON, C9010, S3100 series, Z9100–ON and Z9500 switches), the
Dell EMC Networking OS Conguration Guide for the MXL 10/40GbE Switch IO Module for your MXL switch, the Dell PowerEdge
Conguration Guide for the M I/O Aggregator for your IOA aggregator, or the Dell PowerEdge FN I/O Module Conguration Guide for your
FN-IOM aggregator.
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 EMC 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 EMC 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 does not support the Ruby scripting and also the Python scripts that import the threading module.
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