Managing Auto Configuration (Cli); Managing Auto Configuration - Dell PowerConnect 8024 User Configuration Manual

Managing Auto Configuration (CLI)

This section provides information about the commands you manage the
Auto-Install Configuration feature on the switch. For more information about
these commands, see the
CLI Reference Guide

Managing Auto Configuration

Beginning in Privileged EXEC mode, use the following commands to
manually activate the Auto Configuration process and download a
configuration script from a remote system to the switch, validate the script,
and activate it.
NOTE:
The Auto Configuration feature begins automatically when the switch is
booted and no startup-config file is found or if the system boots and finds the
boot host dhcp command in the startup-config file.
Command
configure
boot autoinstall start Enable the Auto Configuration feature on the switch.
boot host dhcp
boot host autosave
boot host retrycount
retries
boot host autoreboot Allow the switch to automatically reboot when the image is
exit
show boot
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Purpose
Enter Global Configuration mode.
Enable Auto Configuration for the next reboot cycle. The
command does not change the current behavior of Auto
Configuration, but it does save the command to NVRAM.
Allow the switch to automatically save the configuration file
downloaded to the switch by the Auto Configuration feature.
Specify the number of attempts to download the file (by
sending unicast TFTP requests, and if unsuccessful,
broadcast TFTP requests) specified in the response from the
DHCP server.
retries
The range for
successfully downloaded through the Auto Configuration
feature.
Exit to Privileged Exec mode.
Displays the current status of the Auto Configuration process.
Auto Image and Configuration Update
is 1–3.
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