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Open Automation Guide - Page 3
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3 Smart Scripting 13
Overview 13 Use Cases 14 Downloading the Smart Scripting Package 15
Installing Smart Scripting 16 Displaying Installed Packages 17 Uninstalling Smart Scripting 17 Limits on System Usage 17 Supported UNIX Utilities 18 Creating PERL, Python and UNIX Scripts 20 Creating a User Name and Password for Smart Scripting 20 Running a Script from the FTOS CLI 21...
Open Automation Guide - Page 5
Note: Although this Guide | 5 Supported Platforms and Required FTOS Versions
The Open Automation 2.0 release is supported on the following Dell Force10 switches and minimum FTOS versions: • S55 switches require FTOS version 8.3.5.2 or later. • S60 switches require FTOS version of the Open Automation Framework designed to run on the Force10 Operating System (FTOS), including: •...
Open Automation Guide - Page 6
... S4810 platforms support all Open Automation 2.0 features. The Z9000 platform supports the SmartScripts and SmartUtil features. Platform-specific Feature
Informs you about important operational information.
Conventions
This document uses the following conventions to be entered in the CLI. Information Symbols
Symbol
Type Note
Description Informs you to the Dell Force10 system or...
Open Automation Guide - Page 9
..., virtual switches, and system management tools ensure that automated solutions work within an established data-center environment in a virtualized data center are managed more quickly detected and resolved. HTTP and HTTPS daemons run on
platforms:
z
Dell Force10's Open Automation Framework is designed to provide an open, industry standards-based automation technology that connectivity and...
Open Automation Guide - Page 10
... updates to manually configure a switch, resulting in the rest of FTOS, the operating system for Dell Force10 switches.
With bare metal provisioning, after a switch is referred to as TFTP. The switch automatically configures itself by automatically configuring Dell Force10 switches. The DHCP server provides the switch with the startup configuration file.
10 | Open Automation Framework...
Open Automation Guide - Page 11
... to automatically re-provision VMs and associated VLANs during virtual machine migration. As a result, VSN greatly simplifies many of VLANs when you migrate VMs.
VSN software supports the following hypervisors:
• VMware vSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0 • Citrix XenServer 5.6/6.0
Open Automation Framework | 11
Open Automation Guide - Page 12
...and the number of interfaces communicate directly with the Web GUI.
12 | Open Automation Framework www.dell.com | support.dell.com
Programmatic Management
Programmatic Management provides application programming interfaces (APIs) so that FTOS switches can be managed by in-house or third-party system management tools. • Common third-party management tool sets are supported as plug-ins to...
Open Automation Guide - Page 14
... so on System Usage • Supported UNIX Utilities • Creating a User Name and Password for telnet sessions and retrieving configuration information.
This chapter includes the following sections:
• Use Cases • Downloading the Smart Scripting Package • Installing Smart Scripting • Limits on . Script writers include API function calls made directly on Dell Force10...
Open Automation Guide - Page 15
... when the management plane reconnects.
• Generate time-based reports to receive updates on network status on a periodic basis.
• Query an external, configuration management database on a remote server to support server
virtualization. For example, you can use a script as part of network devices to retrieve information on port operation, and reconfigure switch ports...
Open Automation Guide - Page 16
...password@host-ipaddress/filepath logs in which you install the package. www.dell.com | support.dell.com
Installing Smart Scripting
You install the Smart Scripting file in the same way as you install an FTOS release: directly from local flash memory on a switch or from the FTOS CLI on a switch to install the Smart Scripting package. The package installation updates the running-configuration...
Open Automation Guide - Page 27
...on a Dell Force10 switch. F10SmartUtils.py is stored at /usr/pkg/scripts/smartutils. To configure the username and passwords in the following : • From the Web user interface, select Settings > ...downloaded with the Programmatic Management package and is the Python API library containing the supported functions (described in Table 3-4), which can be run on a Dell Force10 switch. You code...
Open Automation Guide - Page 43
... Session • Uninstalling VSN • Viewing VSN information
Overview
Virtual Server Networking is an Open Automation tool that enables Dell Force10 switch/routers in stacked configurations; Virtual Server Networking | 43
it is supported only on platforms:
As a part of VLANs and port profiles across multiple switches simultaneously, thereby increasing employee productivity and...
Open Automation Guide - Page 57
...; mode • package install • package uninstall • script • show hypervisor supported • show packages • show virtualswitch • show vmmap • type • vsn enable
Virtual Server Networking CLI | 57 6
Virtual Server Networking CLI
Overview
Virtual Server Networking CLI is not supported in stacked configurations;
it is only supported on platforms:
Note...
Open Automation Guide - Page 69
...-party management tools supported to manage Dell Force10 switches, see Downloading the Smart Scripting Package). In addition to the FTOS Configuration Guides for each command. 7
Programmatic Management
Programmatic Management is supported on
platforms:
and is not currently supported on the Z9000 platform.
Overview
In the Open Automation framework, Programmatic Management allows...
Open Automation Guide - Page 73
...-in module, refer to provide a framework that run on host devices in a data center network. Table 7-2. Supported Plug-In Modules to Access Dell Force10 Switches
Management Tool and Required Version CA Spectrum Infrastructure Manager EMC Smarts Ionix Dell AIM HP Network Automation (NA) IBM Systems Director Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) version 12c
Supported Devices S55, S60, and S4810...
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