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About this Guide

This document describes the components and uses of the Open Automation Framework designed to run

on the Dell Networking operating system (OS).

Open Automation includes support for:

• Bare metal provisioning (BMP)

• Open management infrastructure (OMI)

• Puppet

• Representational state transfer (REST) application programming interface (API)

• Smart scripting

• Virtual server networking (VSN)

• Web graphic user interface (GUI) and HTTP server

Audience

This document is intended for data center managers and network administrators responsible for

virtualization and system management. You must have basic knowledge about virtualization technology

and networking to work with the Open Automation framework.

NOTE: Although this document contains information about protocols, it is not intended to provide

complete information about protocol configuration and usage. For this information, see the

documents listed in Related Documents.

Supported Platforms and Required Dell Networking OS

Versions

Dell Networking switches supports Open Automation on the following OS versions.

Dell

Networking

Platform

Minimum Operating Software

S4810 8.3.10.1 or later

S4820T 9.2(0.0) or later

S4048–ON 9.8(0.0P5) or later

S3048–ON 9.8(0.0P2) or later

S5000 9.6(0.0) or later

S6000 9.0.2.0 or later

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