This section lists the common infrastructure management functions that are available in Bare Metal Orchestrator.
Feature | Function |
Automatic discovery | Automatically discovers servers or switches using DHCP and collects inventory. |
Backup | Schedule and perform manual backups. |
Custom installation using a GUI | Install Bare Metal Orchestrator using a GUI launched through the CLI. This option allows you to skip installation of certain components and prevents errors in the standard installation .YAML files. |
DHCP support | Manage DHCP configuration. |
Drift detection | Detects a configuration mismatch or drift before provisioning a server against a blueprint template for the server. |
Events | |
Logs | View collected logs in OpenSearch and export logs. |
Manual discovery | Create servers to add servers that are already deployed in your environment and collect their inventory. |
Media management | Manage firmware, operating system, or license media. |
Metric collection | Collect a snapshot of selected BMC statistics in metric reports for server health monitoring. |
Multitenancy | Create and manage tenants. You can also add or remove users and request or release servers or switches from or to the tenant. |
Operating system deployment | Deploy an operating system. |
Power control | Perform various actions on servers such as power on or off. |
Provisioning hardware | Provision multiple servers with hardware profile templates. You can update firmware versions and different attributes such as BIOS, BMC, RAID settings, and so on. You can convert RAID to non-RAID storage and convert non-RAID to RAID. |
RBAC | Manage users, their assigned roles, and provide Bare Metal Orchestrator access. You can grant users with specific access and privileges that are allocated to them according to their assigned role. |
Remote serviceability and support | The Embedded Service Enabler (ESE) is embedded in Bare Metal Orchestrator and allows connection to the Dell back end through the Secure Connectivity Gateway (SCG) for telemetry and remote serviceability support. The SCG is an aggregator of multiple products from one customer site and is deployed as a virtual machine (VM) external to Bare Metal Orchestrator. This option provides additional functionality that is not offered by the ESE alone. |
Server management | Create servers (Greenfield and Brownfield server deployment). View, update and delete servers, and auto-discovery. |
Switch management | Create, view, update, auto-discover, and delete switches. |
Site management | Create and manage sites. |
User management | Create, view, edit, and delete users. View, and describe roles. Create, and update |
License management | Upload, validate, activate, download, and describe licenses. |
View inventory | View inventory of onboarded devices. |