Provisioning Dell Servers; About Zero-Touch Provisioning - Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 7.1 - FOR DELL SERVERS V1.0 Manual

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Provisioning Dell servers

This chapter includes the following topics:

About zero-touch provisioning

Zero-touch provisioning is a method that you can use to set up your brand new
servers, without using PXE. By communicating with the server s DRAC card, you
can use this functionality to remotely set up any servers or perform other tasks.
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Zero-touch provisioning works in the following manner:
The DRAC can then be booted to a network ISO without using PXE. You can also
provision your hardware, perform a scripted OS installation, and complete other
tasks without using PXE.
About zero-touch provisioning
Creating provisioning credentials
Provisioning a Dell server
Adding a certificate trust list to IIS
"Using Deployment Solution for Dell Servers"
"Creating provisioning credentials"
"Provisioning a Dell server"
You plug in your server.
The DRAC card on your server starts up, finds the Deployment Solution for
Dell provisioning Web site, and identifies itself as a new DRAC.
The Web site sends commands back to the DRAC.
The DRAC is added to the CMDB and assigned a task or a job.
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