Users Guide

To deploy the conguration template on bare metal devices:
1. Click Deployment.
The Deployment Portal is displayed.
2. Perform one of the following:
• In the Common Tasks pane, click Deploy Template.
• In the Compute Pools pane, right-click the compute pool that has the target devices, and then click Deploy.
The Deploy Template Wizard wizard is displayed.
3. On the Name and Deploy Options page:
a. Type an appropriate name for the task.
b. Under Deploy Target, select Bare Metal.
c. Under Select Deploy Options, select Deploy Template.
NOTE: If you want to deploy a conguration template and then boot the device to a network ISO image, you can
select both Deploy Template and Boot to Network ISO. Separate tasks are created for each operation.
d. Click Next.
4. On the Select Template page:
a. Based on the target device type, click Server Template or Chassis Template.
b. Select the conguration template you want to deploy.
NOTE: Only conguration templates that you have either created or cloned are available for selection.
c. Click Next.
5. On the Select Virtual I/O Pool page, click Next.
6. On the Select Devices page, select the target devices from the Repurpose and Bare Metal Devices tree, and click Next.
NOTE: Only devices added to the Repurpose and Bare Metal Devices group that are not assigned to a compute pool
are available for selection.
7. On the Edit Attributes page:
NOTE: OpenManage Essentials does not include any passwords from the source when the conguration template is
created. If you want to set the passwords for the target devices, all password attributes must be edited in the
conguration template before deployment. If you want to change the password, ensure to run the deployment task
as a dierent user. If you are changing the password of the device through the deployment, ensure that you run the
deployment task with a dierent user account.
a. Click the Template Attributes tab.
b. Click the attribute group name to view the list of attributes in a group.
c. If you do not want to deploy a particular attribute in the template and want to retain the current attribute value on the
target device, clear the check box in the Deploy column.
d. Edit or select the values in the Value column based on your preference.
The total number of attributes in the template and the number of attributes that you edit are displayed in the Grouped by
bar.
e. Click Save.
f. Click the Device Specic Attributes tab to edit the attributes that are unique for the target device.
NOTE: The Device Specic Attributes tab may or may not display attributes based on the template selected for
deployment.
g. Click the attribute group name to view the list of attributes in a group.
h. To assign a new Static IPv4 Address for the deployment, enter the Static IPv4 Address in the Value column of IPv4Static 1
IPv4 Address attribute.
NOTE: Deploying the template with the changed Static IPv4 Address initiates a new discovery task for the
device. For more information on the task details, see Task Status. The new Static IPv4 Address is added to the
discovery range under Manage → Discovery and Inventory → Discovery Ranges → All Ranges.
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