Assigning DHCP IP addresses to iLO servers in case of third-party switches

NPS supports assignment of DHCP IP addresses to iLO servers for third-party switches (switches other than those supported by the blueprint).

Use the nps patch command to perform a patch operation on the server to update the iLO IP addresses in the database.

Prerequisites

Ensure that DHCP is already enabled with third-party switches.

Procedure
  1. Patch the IP addresses for the servers:

    nps patch -c ilo -i <server_ip>

    server_ip can be a single IP address, or multiple IP addresses with comma separated, or range of IP addresses.

    OR

    Use the nps patch command to patch the IP addresses for the servers using the CSV file:

    nps patch -c ilo -f <csv_file>

    The iLO IP addresses in the CSV file must be in the following format: 
    ilo
<ilo_ip1>
<ilo_ip2>
.........
<ilo_ipn>
  2. Check whether the servers are updated with the IP addresses.

    nps show --data servers

    Once all servers are updated with IP addresses, then proceed to perform hardware preparation actions like BIOS/RAID/NIC settings.