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. |
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. |
TCP stack deployment | Deploy TCP cloud stack software. |
TKG deployment | Deploy TKG clusters to run application workloads. |
Wind River® Cloud Platform deployment | Deploy Wind River Cloud Platform stack and cloud component clusters. |
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. |