Manage Smart Management Fabric Templates

Smart Management Fabric allows you to create an enterprise grade Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) solution for network connectivity, configuration and troubleshooting devices connected to supported nodes on Lighthouse, wherever they may be.

Caution: Smart Management Fabric is an advanced feature. Prior to roll out, it is recommended to ensure its compliance with your enterprise security posture.

Smart Management Fabric uses dynamic link state routing to allow IP connectivity to IT resources regardless of whether the connection is either:

• Physically, via USB, serial ports that are configured with IP addresses

• Virtually, via SSH, https (GUI), SPs/BMCs (iLO, iDRAC, etc.)

• Via commonly used automation tools such as RDP, Ansible, Python, vCenter

Smart Management Fabric templates allow OSPF to be run on a node. For example, a template may set network addresses, subnet masks and authentication methods. To apply Smart Management Fabric templates, the selected nodes must be:

• a supported Opengear appliance

• running firmware version 23.10 or later.

Note:  A user can override the smart management fabric configuration by using the command line interface tool.