In addition to using the Grid Setup Wizard or access the Join Grid dialog box to join appliances to a Grid, you can set up an appliance using the auto-provisioning feature, which allows a DHCP server to automatically assign an IP address to the appliance. You can then join the auto-provisioned appliance to the Grid.
Auto-provisioning is enabled by default for new installations of physical appliances, but it is not supported for vNIOS appliances. When you connect the appliance to the network, a lease request is automatically sent to the DHCP server. The DHCP server fingerprints the client as "Infoblox Appliance," as the DHCP client provides the unique option sequence (1,28,2,2,3,3,15,6,12) and vendor ID (INFOBLOX). The DHCP server assigns a DHCP lease and a dynamic IP address to the appliance. If the DHCP lease request fails, the default IP address (192.168.1.2) is assigned to the appliance. The DHCP client tries to send the lease request for a duration of one minute when the appliance is either in the factory default state or in the auto-configured default IP address state after a reboot. If you do not use
auto-provisioning to set up the appliance, then you can wait one minute before connecting the appliance to the network. Otherwise, the DHCP server will assign a dynamic IP address to the appliance. Note that if you have already set the IP address for the appliance through the Infoblox CLI, GUI, or API, then auto-provisioning is disabled for the appliance and the lease address is not requested. When auto-provisioning is enabled for an appliance, the DNS, DHCP, FTP, TFTP, HTTP, NTP, bloxTools, Captive Portal, Reporting services, as well as backup and restore are disabled for the member until a static IP address is set for the appliance. You can join a single appliance or HA pair to the Grid. After the appliance joins the Grid, the static IP address is set for the appliance.
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Connect the appliance to a network using an Ethernet cable, connect it to a power source, and then turn on the power. For information about cabling the appliance to a network and powering the appliance, refer to the user guide or installation guide that ships with the product.
A lease request is automatically sent to the DHCP server that assigns a DHCP lease and a dynamic IP address to the appliance. The DHCP client tries to send the lease request for a duration of one minute and if the request fails, the default IP address (192.168.1.2) is assigned to the appliance.Join the appliance to the Grid Master. You can join the auto-provisioned appliance to the Grid Master using the Connect dialog box. You can also join an appliance to the Grid using the JoinGrid dialog box. For more information, see Adding Grid MembersJoining Appliances to the Grid.
A static IP address is set and auto-provisioning is automatically disabled for the appliance after it joins the Grid.
Only the following physical platforms supports Auto-Provisioning:
IB-4015, IB-4025, TE-815, TE-825, TE-1415, TE-1425, TE-2215, TE-2225, TR-1405, TR-2205, TR-4005.
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