Interface Selection Process - HP FlexFabric 7900 Series Configuration Manual

Figure 37 Automatic configuration workflow
Y: HTTP method
Download the configuration file
from the HTTP server
Got the configuration file?

Interface selection process

The device follows the following process to select an interface for automatic configuration:
1. If the device has a management Ethernet interface that is up at Layer 2, the device uses the
management Ethernet interface for automatic configuration.
Device powered on
(no configuration file)
Select an interface
Enable DHCP client and
request parameters
Got parameters?
Y
Got a configuration file name
and the name is in the form of an
HTTP URL?
N: TFTP method
Got the TFTP server
IP address?
Y
N
Y
Got a configuration file
from the TFTP server?
Y
Restore the default and execute the
configuration file
Configuration file
executed successfully?
Y
End
N
N
Got the TFTP server
domain name?
Y
Y
Resolved the TFTP
server domain name?
N
N
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Restore the default
for the interface
N
N
N
Got a configuration file
through a broadcast?
Y