Users Guide

Contents
1 Overview........................................................................................................................................................5
Key Features....................................................................................................................................................................... 5
What's new?.......................................................................................................................................................................5
2 Getting Started..............................................................................................................................................7
How OpenManage Ansible Modules works.................................................................................................................... 7
Running your rst Playbook.............................................................................................................................................. 7
3 Updating Firmware........................................................................................................................................ 8
Viewing Firmware Inventory............................................................................................................................................. 8
Installing Firmware............................................................................................................................................................. 9
4 Conguring PowerEdge Servers................................................................................................................... 11
Viewing LC Status............................................................................................................................................................. 11
Exporting Server Conguration Prole.......................................................................................................................... 12
Importing Server Conguration Prole.......................................................................................................................... 13
Conguring iDRAC............................................................................................................................................................15
Conguring iDRAC Users...........................................................................................................................................15
Conguring iDRAC Timezone.................................................................................................................................... 17
Conguring iDRAC Eventing..................................................................................................................................... 18
Conguring iDRAC Services..................................................................................................................................... 20
Conguring iDRAC Network.....................................................................................................................................22
Conguring BIOS............................................................................................................................................................. 25
Conguring RAID............................................................................................................................................................. 28
Conguring storage volume......................................................................................................................................30
Conguring Collect System Inventory on Restart....................................................................................................... 34
Conguring Syslog...........................................................................................................................................................35
5 Deploying operating system......................................................................................................................... 37
Boot to a Network ISO Image........................................................................................................................................ 37
6 Server Inventory..........................................................................................................................................39
Viewing the System Inventory....................................................................................................................................... 39
7 Server Administration Tasks.........................................................................................................................40
Conguring the Power State on the PowerEdge Servers..........................................................................................40
Resetting iDRAC............................................................................................................................................................... 41
Viewing LC Job Status.................................................................................................................................................... 42
Exporting LC Logs........................................................................................................................................................... 42
Deleting LC Job................................................................................................................................................................43
Deleting LC Job Queue................................................................................................................................................... 44
Conguring System Lockdown Mode........................................................................................................................... 45
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