Network Topology: Hybrid setup
For an environment containing both LOM and BMC ports, the provision tool needs to be run twice to correctly manage all servers in the network.
The first time the provision tool is run (to discover the dedicated BMC ports), ensure that the following variables are set in input/provision_config.yml
:
network_interface_type
:dedicated
discovery_mechanism
:mapping
Leave the variables
bmc_nic_subnet
,bmc_static_start_range
andbmc_static_end_range
blank ininput/provision_config.yml
. Entering these variables will cause IP reassignment and can interfere with the availability of ports on your target servers.Do not use the following methods to discover nodes in a Hybrid setup: snmpwalk, switch-based.
Note
For users who don’t want internet access routed to target nodes, keep primary_dns
and secondary_dns
blank in input/provision_config.yml
.
Once all the dedicated NICs are discovered, re-run the provisioning tool (to discover the shared LOM ports) with the following variables in input/provision_config.yml
:
network_interface_type
:lom
discovery_mechanism
:bmc
To assign BMC NICs and route internet access to your target nodes, populate the values of bmc_nic_subnet
, bmc_static_start_range
, bmc_static_end_range
, primary_dns
and secondary_dns
in input/provision_config.yml
during the second run of the provision tool.
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