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

• show reload-type — displays the current Reload mode (BMP mode or Normal mode).
dhcp-timeout
Allows you to congure the DHCP timeout limit.
S4810, S4820T, S3048–ON, S3100 series, S4048–ON,
S4048T–ON, S5000, S6000, S6000–ON, S6010–ON, S6100–
ON, Z9100–ON, Z9500,
C9010, IOA, FN-IOM, and MXL
Syntax
dhcp-timeout minutes
To reset the DHCP time out limit, use the no dhcp-timeout minutes command.
Parameters
dhcp-timeout
minutes
Congure the DHCP timeout (in minutes) after which the BMP exits. The range is from 0
to 50. If you enter a range of 0, the timeout is 0 (no limit).
NOTE: Dell EMC Networking recommends setting the value to 2 or higher.
Defaults Disabled
Command Modes RELOAD-TYPE CONFIGURATION
Command History
This guide is platform-specic. For command information about other platforms, see the relevant Dell EMC
Networking OS Command Line Reference Guide.
The following is a list of the Dell EMC Networking OS version history for this command.
Version Description
9.10(0.1) Introduced on the S4048T–ON and S6010–ON.
9.10(0.0) Introduced on the S6100–ON.
9.9(0.0) Introduced on the C9010.
9.8(2.0) Introduced on the S3100 series.
9.8(1.0P1) Introduced on the Z9100–ON.
9.8(0.0P5) Introduced on the S4048–ON.
9.8(0.0P2) Introduced on the S3048–ON.
9.7(0.0) Introduced on the S4810, S4820T, S5000, S6000, S6000–ON, Z9000, Z9500, IOA, and
MXL.
Related Commands
• reload-type — allows you to congure the reload-type options in reload-type sub command mode.
• show reload-type — displays the current Reload mode (BMP mode or Normal mode).
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