Tripp Lite B093-004-2E4U-V Owner's Manual

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15. Advanced Conﬁguration

15.14 Bulk Provisioning

Tripp Lite devices include wizard scripts to facilitate conﬁguration and deployment en masse. These wizards operate at the

command line level, so knowledge of the Linux command line and shell scripting is useful, but not necessary. Rather, they aim

to be sufﬁciently user-friendly for remote hands to manage. This bulk-provisioning feature is supported by ﬁrmware version

3.9.1 or later.

The basic steps are:

1. Conﬁgure an individual “golden Primary” appliance with the baseline conﬁguration shared by all Tripp Lite devices. This

may be a minimal conﬁguration if the installs are quite diverse, or a complete conﬁguration when dealing with replicated

installs.

2. Use make-template to turn the golden Primary’s active conﬁguration into a template conﬁguration that may be applied to

other devices.

3. Create an OPG backup of the templated golden Primary appliance.

4. Restore this conﬁguration to each target devices via the CLI, web UI or using a USB thumb drive.

5. Login via the CLI to complete conﬁguration using setup-wizard.

15.15 Zero Touch Provisioning

Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) was introduced with ﬁrmware release 3.15.1 to allow Tripp Lite devices to be provisioned during

their initial boot from a DHCP server.

15.15.1 Preparation

These are typical steps for conﬁguration over a trusted network:

1. Conﬁgure a same-model Tripp Lite device.

2. Optionally use the Bulk Provisioning wizard scripts to remove any appliance-speciﬁc settings (i.e. create a template

conﬁguration). Refer to 15.14 Bulk Provisioning for more information.

3. Save the conﬁguration as a Tripp Lite backup (.opg) ﬁle under System: Conﬁguration Backup in the web UI, or via conﬁg

-e in the CLI. Alternately, you can save the XML conﬁguration as a ﬁle ending in .xml.

4. Publish the .opg or.xml ﬁle on a ﬁleserver that understands one of the HTTPS, HTTP, FTP or TFTP protocols.

5. Conﬁgure your DHCP server to include a “vendor speciﬁc” option for Tripp Lite devices. The option text should be a URL to

the location of the .opg or .xml ﬁle. The option text should not exceed 250 characters in length. It must end in either .opg

or .xml.

6. Connect a new Tripp Lite device (either at defaults from the factory, or conﬁg erased) to the network. Apply power.

7. It may take up to 5 minutes for the device to ﬁnd the .opg or .xml ﬁle via DHCP, download, install ﬁle and reboot.

15.15.2 Example ISC DHCP Server Conﬁguration

The following is an example of an ISC DHCP server conﬁguration fragment for serving an .opg conﬁguration image:

option space tripp-lite code width 1 length width 1;

option tripp-lite.conﬁg-url code 1 = text;

class “ tripp-lite -ztp” {

match if option vendor-class-identiﬁer ~~ “^Tripp Lite /”;

vendor-option-space tripp-lite;

option tripp-lite.conﬁg-url “https://example.com/opg/${class}.opg”;

}

For other DHCP servers, please consult their documentation on specifying “Vendor Speciﬁc” option ﬁelds. We use sub-option 1

to hold the URL text.

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Tripp Lite B093-004-2E4U-V 4-Port Console Server with 4G LTE Cellular Gateway, Dual GbE NIC, 4Gb Flash and Dual SIM