11. Digital Rebar Provision Operations

This section will attempt to describe common operations and actions that can be done.

Some of these operations are in the User Interface (UI), but not all. This will focus on CLI usage for now. See the User Interface (UI) section for UI usage.

• 11.1. Air Gap Install Instructions
  • 11.1.1. About
  • 11.1.2. Additional Operating System Packages Required
  • 11.1.3. RackN & DRP Requirements
  • 11.1.4. Step By Step
• 11.2. Backup and Restore
  • 11.2.1. About
  • 11.2.2. Backup
  • 11.2.3. Restore
  • 11.2.4. Rebuild / Move
  • 11.2.5. dr-waltool Missing
• 11.3. Using the bios plugin
  • 11.3.1. Installation
  • 11.3.2. General Process
  • 11.3.3. The bios-current-configuration
  • 11.3.4. The bios-target-configuration
  • 11.3.5. Legacy -vs- UEFI
  • 11.3.6. The bios-skip-config
  • 11.3.7. Video Example
• 11.4. Certificate Operations
  • 11.4.1. API Certificate Management
  • 11.4.2. Static Certificate Management (4.7.0 and higher)
  • 11.4.3. Client Certificate Authorization (v4.10.3 and higher)
  • 11.4.4. Mutual TLS Setup
• 11.5. Contexts
  • 11.5.1. About
  • 11.5.2. Changes
  • 11.5.3. Setup
  • 11.5.4. Create Custom Context Content
  • 11.5.5. Using Custom Contexts
• 11.6. DHCP Operations
  • 11.6.1. Startup Configuration
  • 11.6.2. Runtime Configuration
  • 11.6.3. Runtime Behaviour
• 11.7. Using the drpcli tool
• 11.8. Preference Setting
• 11.9. BootEnv Operations
  • 11.9.1. Installing a “Canned” BootEnv
  • 11.9.2. Listing Installed BootEnvs
  • 11.9.3. Cloning a BootEnv
  • 11.9.4. Creating a BootEnv
  • 11.9.5. Editing a BootEnv
• 11.10. Subnet Operations
  • 11.10.1. Cloning a Subnet
  • 11.10.2. Creating a new Subnet
  • 11.10.3. Updating a Subnet
  • 11.10.4. Deleting a Subnet
  • 11.10.5. List and Show Subnets
• 11.11. Template Operations
  • 11.11.1. Cloning a Template
  • 11.11.2. Updating a Template
• 11.12. Param Operations
  • 11.12.1. Creating a Param
  • 11.12.2. Deleting a Param
  • 11.12.3. Editing a Param
• 11.13. Profile Operations
  • 11.13.1. Creating a Profile
  • 11.13.2. Deleting a Profile
  • 11.13.3. Altering an Existing Profile (including the global profile)
• 11.14. Machine Operations
  • 11.14.1. Creating a Machine
  • 11.14.2. Adding or Removing a Profile to a Machine
  • 11.14.3. Changing BootEnv on a Machine
  • 11.14.4. Rename a Machine
• 11.15. DHCP Operations
  • 11.15.1. Creating a Reservation
• 11.16. Advanced Workflow
  • 11.16.1. Stages
  • 11.16.2. Stage Maps
  • 11.16.3. Tasks
  • 11.16.4. Jobs
• 11.17. User Operations
  • 11.17.1. Creating a User
  • 11.17.2. Granting a User Token
  • 11.17.3. Deleting a User
  • 11.17.4. Revoking a User’s Password
  • 11.17.5. Secure User Creation Pattern
  • 11.17.6. Creating Support Bundles
• 11.18. ESXi Getting Started Guide
  • 11.18.1. About
  • 11.18.2. System Setup Information
  • 11.18.3. Getting Started
  • 11.18.4. Creating A Basic Profile
  • 11.18.5. Additional Resources
• 11.19. Building And Deploying CentOS Images
  • 11.19.1. About
  • 11.19.2. Expected System State
  • 11.19.3. Step By Step
  • 11.19.4. Customizing Storage Partitioning
  • 11.19.5. Troubleshooting
• 11.20. Image Deploy Storage Examples
  • 11.20.1. Windows Single Disk
  • 11.20.2. Linux Single Disk, Separate Partitions
  • 11.20.3. Linux, LVM Multi-Partition Layout
  • 11.20.4. Linux - Ubuntu with Software RAID
  • 11.20.5. Linux - CentOS Standard Install
  • 11.20.6. Linux - CentOS with RAID
  • 11.20.7. Linux - CentOS with Software RAID on NVMe Drives
  • 11.20.8. Linux Two Separate Disks
• 11.21. IPv6 Provisioning
  • 11.21.1. Digital Rebar Endpoint IPv6
  • 11.21.2. Supporting Components
  • 11.21.3. Operational Notes
• 11.22. Universal Workflow Operations
  • 11.22.1. Actions
  • 11.22.2. Provided Workflows
• 11.23. Universal Cluster Operations
  • 11.23.1. Clusters
• 11.24. Universal Resource Broker Operations
  • 11.24.1. Brokers
• 11.25. Manager Operations
  • 11.25.1. Manager Enablement - Portal
  • 11.25.2. Manager Enablement - CLI
  • 11.25.3. Manager Enablement - API
  • 11.25.4. Manager Actions
  • 11.25.5. Manager Common Methods
• 11.26. Catalog Operations
  • 11.26.1. Command Line
  • 11.26.2. Catalog Details
  • 11.26.3. Custom Catalogs
• 11.27. Pooling Operations
  • 11.27.1. Pool Actions
  • 11.27.2. Pool Objects
• 11.28. Endpoint Sizing, Performance and Scaling Guide
  • 11.28.1. Parallel vs Sequential Workflow
  • 11.28.2. Operational Concerns
  • 11.28.3. Scaling Components
• 11.29. UX Views
  • 11.29.1. Basic Operations
  • 11.29.2. UXView
  • 11.29.3. UX Settings
• 11.30. SAML-based Single Sign-On
  • 11.30.1. API Access for SAML
  • 11.30.2. UX Access by SAML
  • 11.30.3. Identity Provider Configuration
  • 11.30.4. Identity Provider Examples
• 11.31. Security Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
  • 11.31.1. Authentication Questions
  • 11.31.2. Authorization Questions
  • 11.31.3. Logging and Tracking Questions
  • 11.31.4. Confidentiality Questions
  • 11.31.5. Service and Availability Questions
  • 11.31.6. Integrity Questions
  • 11.31.7. Remote Access to DRP by RackN
  • 11.31.8. Overall security Security
  • 11.31.9. General Questions
• 11.32. Virtual Media ISO Booting
  • 11.32.1. Introduction
  • 11.32.2. The Process
  • 11.32.3. Notes and Troubleshooting
• 11.33. LPAR Operations
  • 11.33.1. Support Changes
  • 11.33.2. LPAR Configuration
• 11.34. Upgrading Digital Rebar Provision
  • 11.34.1. Upgrade Prerequisites:
  • 11.34.2. Two-phase Rolling Upgrade Process
  • 11.34.3. Legacy Upgrade Process