Manually configuring PowerEdge 12th and later generation servers for auto discovery
Prerequisites
About this task
When you order servers from Dell EMC, you can ask for the auto discovery feature to be enabled on the servers after you provide the provisioning server IP address. The provisioning server IP address should be the IP address of OMIVV. Therefore, after you receive the servers from Dell EMC, when you power on the servers after mounting and connecting the iDRAC cable, the servers get auto discovered and listed in the first page of the Deployment Wizard.
To enable auto discovery manually on the target machine, perform the following steps for 12th and later generation servers:
Steps
To go to system setup, boot/reboot the target system and press F2 during the initial boot.
Go to
and disable the root user. Ensure that there are no other users with active administrator privileges on the iDRAC address when you are disabling the root user.Click Back, and click Remote Enablement.
Set Enable Auto-Discovery as Enabled and Provisioning Server as the IP address of the OMIVV.
Save the settings.
The server is auto discovered upon next server boot. After successful auto discovery, the root user gets enabled, and the Enable Auto-Discovery flag is disabled automatically.