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17 Advanced Server Configuration in Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise 3.0
3.2 Identity States in OpenManage Enterprise
As part of its virtual identity management functionality, OpenManage Enterprise tracks usage information for
each possible virtual identity that can be generated from the sub-pools in an Identity Pool. Each virtual identity
that can be generated from an Identity Pool may be in one of the following states:
Unused—Indicates that the virtual identity value is not being used by any device (as far as OpenManage
Enterprise can tell) and is available for reservation for deployment.
Reserved—Indicates that the virtual identity value is reserved for deployment to a target device. Once
OpenManage Enterprise deploys the identity to the target device, and confirms that it was
successfully applied on the device, it will change its state to Assigned.
Assigned—Indicates that the virtual identity value was deployed to a target device and OpenManage
Enterprise confirmed that the value was successfully applied on that device.
The following list shows when identity state may change:
 Available-Reserved—When the “Assign Identities” button in the Deploy Template wizard is pressed.
 Available-Assigned—If a task gets a system configuration (such as when creating a template) and a
device is using a virtual identity defined in an Identity Pool. This is not expected to occur very often.
 Reserved-Available—After canceling out of the Deploy Template wizard (once the cleanup task runs).
 Reserved-Assigned—After deploying an identity to a target device and getting confirmation that it was
successfully applied on the device. If a task gets a system configuration (such as when creating a
template) and a device is using a virtual identity defined in an Identity Pool. This is not expected to occur
very often.
 Assigned-Available—After running Reclaim Identity on a device (so it returns to using its factory-
assigned identity).
3.3 Identity Pool Structure
This section discusses the composition of an Identity Pool. Each Identity Pool must have a unique name, and
may have a description. In addition, each Identity Pool can contain values to use for generating virtual
identities for one or more of the following protocols:
 Ethernet Identities
 iSCSI Identities
 FCoE Identities
 Fibre Channel (FC) Identities
An Identity Pool may be thought of as a collection of one or more sub-pools—one for Ethernet, one for iSCSI,
and so on. An Identity Pool only requires to include sub-pools which are applicable for its intended use.
Identity information for each type of sub-pool is discussed in the later sections of this technical white paper.
3.3.1 Ethernet Identities
Ethernet identities refers to the configuration attributes that provide a unique virtual identity for Ethernet
operations on a network. The Ethernet page of the Identity Pool wizard is used to define a sub-pool to use for
generating unique Ethernet virtual identities. Because OpenManage Enterprise executes on an Ethernet
network, most every Identity Pool will have to specify values for generating Ethernet virtual identities. The
following values are specified to define a sub-pool for generating unique Ethernet virtual identities: