White Papers

37 Chassis, Sled, and IOA Template Cloning using Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise version 3.2 | Document ID
4 Clone chassis and server configuration with VLAN by
changing the attributes values
OpenManage Enterprise allows editing of a template if you wish to customize the configuration of the target
server. The attributes of template can be edited irrespective of whether the template was created using a
Reference device or Reference Template file. The built-in templates can be edited only after cloning it.
Note: Editing of IOA templates is not supported in OpenManage Enterprise.
4.1 Use Case 5
You have a Chassis containing Sleds and IOA fully configured (represented as the Reference Setup) by
OpenManage Enterprise based on your data center’s needs and now wish to replicate the complete
configuration, with few changes in the deployment attributes of chassis and sleds, to one or more newly
procured chassis containing equal number of Sleds.
To accomplish this use case:
Cloning of device configuration is performed on individual target devices. The templates from a fully
configured chassis and sled are captured, edited with the desired attribute values, and deployed on the newly
procured chassis, sleds, and IOAs respectively.
4.1.1 Capture the template of chassis and sleds
Capturing the templates of chassis and sleds have been discussed previously in various use case sections of
this white paper. Refer the Create Template from one of the previous topics.
4.1.2 Edit the template of chassis and sleds
I. Editing a server template
1. Navigate to Configuration  Deploy portal
2. Select the Server Template and Click Edit.
3. Edit the Template Name and description is required in the Template Information grid.
4. Edit components gives two options Guided View and Advanced View to configure the components of the
current template.
• The Guided View enables to edit the attributes such as BIOS, boot sequence, and networking. If the
configuration elements are not set while creating the template, they will not be displayed during
the edit mode.
• The Advanced View mode enables you to edit all the available server configuration settings.
5. Based on your target server setting requirements, if you wish to modify the Boot Sequence settings, Network
Bandwidth allocation, Exclude components/attributes Deployment Template.
• Edit the Boot property of the template and change the Boot sequence.
• Modify the Network property of the template and edit the Min/Max Bandwidth to match the Target setting
requirement.
• Advance View allows you to exclude the required attributes from deploying.