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Profile Management and Deployment Enhancements in OpenManage Enterprise 3.4 |438
2 Configuration and Deployment improvements in OME 3.4
2.1 Profile Management using the Profile Portal
OME 3.4 has a new Profile Management Portal as seen in the screenshot below.
A Profile provides a mechanism for reserving identities and establishing deployment images in advance, for
use in deployment later.
When a profile is created, applicable virtual identity attribute values are reserved for it. Those assigned
identity values are owned by the profile and remain with that profile for as long as it exists.
The Profile Management portal showing a list of profiles
The profile portal provides a multitude of functionalities, as seen from the menu options.
• Creation of reserved or unassigned profiles with virtual identities for future deployment (Create
Profile).
• An easy way to view what is configured on a device (Edit Profile).
• Virtual identity management using the profiles – as virtual identities reside with the profiles (Assign or
Unassign)
- Decommissioning systems and replacing them with new ones is so much easier.
- Addresses previous release limitations with migration where the settings can be unassigned from
a source system and maintained with the profile before assignment to an appropriate target
server.
• Ability to deploy only what is changed via Redeploy
- Reduces deployment time and keeps results limited to what was explicitly changed.