Users Guide

Manage Profiles

A 'Profile' is a specific instance of an existing template that is customized with attributes unique to an individual device. Profiles can be

created either implicitly during a template's deployment/auto-deployment or from the existing templates by the user. A Profile consists of

target-specific attribute values along with the BootToISO choices, and iDRAC management IP details of the target device. It could also

contain any network bandwidth and VLAN allocations for server NIC ports as applicable. Profiles are linked to the source template from

which they are created.

The following details of the listed profiles are displayed on the Configuration > Profiles page:

Table 17. Manage Profiles - Field definitions

Field Name Description

Modified

A 'modified' symbol is displayed to notify any modification or

change to the associated profile or template attributes after the

initial assigning. If the modified profile is redeployed on the device,

the symbol disappears.

Profile Name Name of the profile

Template Name Name of the linked source template

Target Service tag or IP Address of the device on which the profile is

assigned. If the profile is not assigned to any device, then target is

blank.

Target Type The device type (server or chassis) on which the profile is assigned

Chassis Chassis name of the chassis if the target server is discovered as

part of a chassis

Profile State Profile State will be displayed as 'Assigned to Device' if the profile

is assigned, 'Unassigned' for unassigned profiles, and 'Deployed' for

the deployed profiles.

Last Action Status Displays a profile's last action status such as Aborted, Cancelled,

Completed, Failed, New, Not Run, Paused, Queued, Running,

Scheduled, Starting, Stopped, Completed with Errors.

Advanced Filters can be used to customize the Profile list.

On the right side — Description, Last deployed Time, Last Modified Time, Created On, and Created By are displayed for the selected

profile. Click View Identities to view the NIC configuration and virtual identities that are tagged to the profile.

Depending on the various profile states, the following actions can be performed on the Configuration > Profiles page as mentioned

below:

NOTE: Create and Delete operations are not listed as part of the table.

Table 18. Profile states and possible operations

Profile State Edit Assign Target Unassign Target Re-Deploy Migrate

Unassigned Profile Yes Yes No No No

Assigned to device Yes No Yes No No

Deployed Yes No Yes Yes Yes

• Create profiles and pre-reserve virtual identities. See, Create profiles on page 76

• View profile details. See, View Profile details on page 76

• Edit profile attributes and settings. See, Edit a profile on page 77

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