Users Guide

Manage device configuration templates
From the OpenManage Enterprise menu, by clicking Configuration > Deploy, you can set the configuration properties such as
network properties, and BIOS versions of servers, and chassis by using device configuration templates—predefined templates or custom
templates. Templates enable you to optimize your data center resources, Subject Matter Expert (SME) bandwidth, and reduce the cycle
time in creating clones and deployments. Templates enhance your business-critical operations in converged infrastructure that uses
software-defined infrastructures.
Topics:
• Create a template from a reference device
• Create template by importing a template file
• View a template information
• Edit a template
• Edit network properties
• Deploy device templates
• Clone templates
• Manage identity pools—Stateless deployment
• Overview of stateless deployment
• Create Identity Pool - Pool Information
• Define networks
• Edit or delete a configured network
• Stateless deployment
• Delete identity pools
• Reclaim assigned virtual identities
• Migrate device profile
Create a template from a reference device
NOTE:
To perform any tasks on OpenManage Enterprise, you must have necessary user privileges. See Role-based
OpenManage Enterprise user privileges.
NOTE: On the PowerEdge 12G and 13G servers that have iDRAC version 2.52.52.52 and earlier (only up to 2.50.50.50),
you must enable SMBv1 for the server configuration and deployment feature to work.
You can create or edit a template by using a reference device or by importing from an existing template. To create by using a reference
device:
1. From the OpenManage Enterprise menu, click Configuration > Deploy > Create Template, and then select From Reference
Device.
2. In the Create Template dialog box:
a) In the Template Information section, enter a name for the device configuration template and description for the template.
b) Select the template type:
• Clone Reference Server: Enables you to clone the configuration of an existing server.
• Clone Reference Chassis: Enables you to clone the configuration of an existing chassis.
c) Click Next.
d) In the Reference Device section, click Select Device to select the device whose configuration properties must be used for
creating the new template. For more information about selecting devices, see Selecting target devices and device groups.
NOTE: You can select only one device as a reference device.
e) In the Configuration Elements section, select the check boxes corresponding to the device elements that must be cloned. For
creating template by using server as the device, you can select to clone the server properties such as iDRAC, BIOS, Lifecycle
Controller, and Event Filters. For example, iDRAC and RAID. By default, all elements are selected.
f) Click Finish.
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