Servers

Server registration and provisioning resources.

• Servers overview
  • Lifecycle stages
  • General guidelines when registering servers
  • Registering servers that cannot be touched
  • Troubleshooting a stuck server registration process
• Server lifecycle
  • Server states
  • Interact with the server states
  • Server cycles
• Managing hardware failures and changes
  • No Re-Registration required (but advised)
  • Network card changes
  • BMC board/Motherboard changes
  • Upgrading a server
• Server types
  • Creating a new server type
  • Allocating a server type to a server
• Adding a new managed server
  • Adding a new managed server via the Add Server button
  • Adding a new managed server via the CLI
  • Adding a new server via Zero Touch
  • Default RAID configuration
• Enabling a change
• Managing BIOS settings
• Re-registering a server
• Adding a new Endpoint
  • Adding a new endpoint using the UI
  • Adding a new endpoint via the CLI
  • Adding a new endpoint to an infrastructure using the UI
• Managing server firmware
  • Mass firmware upgrades
  • Upgrading a server’s individual components
  • Enabling automatic firmware upgrades
• Managing firmware catalogs
  • Preparing an HTTP repository
  • Configuring the CLI for managing firmware catalogs and firmware binaries
  • Creating a firmware catalog record and uploading binaries
  • Vendor specific details
  • Periodic update
• Managing Firmware baselines
  • Creating a firmware baseline
  • Editing a baseline
  • Removing a baseline
• Allocating IPs in server only mode
• Controlling cleanup and default RAID creation