Users Guide

Manage device deployment templates
Device deployment template in OpenManage Enterprise allows you to set the configuration properties such as BIOS, boot,
network properties, and so on of servers and chassis.
The deployment template is a consolidation of system configuration settings referred to as attributes. The deployment template
allows for multiple servers or chassis to be configured quickly and automatically without the risk of human error.
Templates enable you to optimize data center resources and reduce the cycle time in creating clones and deployments.
Templates also enhance your business-critical operations in converged infrastructure that uses software-defined infrastructures.
You can either use the predefined deployment templates or import the deployment templates from a reference device or an
existing template file. To view the list of existing templates, from the OpenManage Enterprise menu, click Configuration >
Templates.
To perform any tasks on OpenManage Enterprise, you must have necessary role-based user privileges and scope-based
operational access to the devices. Role and scope-based access control in OpenManage Enterprise on page 15.
A device manager can view and perform tasks on the default templates and only the custom templates that are owned by that
device manager.
Topics:
• Create a deployment template from a reference device
• Create a deployment template by importing a template file
• View a deployment template information
• Edit a server deployment template
• Edit a chassis deployment template
• Edit IOA deployment template
• Edit network properties of a deployment template
• Deploy device deployment templates
• Deploy IOA deployment templates
• Clone deployment templates
• Auto deployment of configuration on yet-to-be-discovered servers or chassis
• Create auto deployment targets
• Delete auto deployment targets
• Export auto deployment target details to different formats
• Overview of stateless deployment
• Define networks
• Edit or delete a configured network
• Export VLAN definitions
• Import network definitions
Create a deployment template from a reference
device
NOTE:
To perform any tasks on OpenManage Enterprise, you must have necessary user privileges. See Role and scope-
based access control in OpenManage Enterprise on page 15.
NOTE: Ensure to enable SMBv1 in the SMB Settings before you begin any tasks which need communication with any
chassis or the PowerEdge YX2X and YX3X servers that have iDRAC version 2.50.50.50 and earlier. See Manage Console
preferences on page 156 and Generic naming convention for Dell EMC PowerEdge servers on page 177.
You can create or edit a deployment template by using a reference device or by importing from an existing deployment template.
To create by using a reference device:
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