Users Guide

Managing device conguration baseline

The conguration of a server or chassis in a production environment must be properly maintained to ensure availability of the server.

These server conguration settings tend to be drifted over time because of various reasons. The Device Compliance Portal enables

you to verify and ensure the compliance of multiple servers and chassis to a device conguration baseline that serves as a baseline.

The compliance status indicates if there is any dierence between the current conguration settings and its corresponding baseline

conguration. The Device Compliance Portal also allows you to create baselines, and assign the desired baseline to multiple

production servers for establishing the compliance.

NOTE: A device is considered to be compliant if it matches with all the settings dened in the associated baseline. A

device with additional hardware (for example, an additional NIC card), is also considered to be compliant. A device may

become non-compliant if there is a change in either the device inventory or the associated baseline. If the associated

baseline is changed, the baseline must be redeployed to the associated devices.

NOTE: Compliance tasks are not supported for IOA templates.

Using the Device Compliance Portal, you can:

• Create a conguration baseline from a server or chassis

• Associate a conguration baseline to a server or chassis

• View the tasks that have been created and their status

• Congure the deployment le share

NOTE: The

device conguration deployment

and

conguration compliance

features are licensed (fee-based) for

supported PowerEdge servers with iDRAC. To use these features on any PowerEdge VRTX or PowerEdge FX2/FX2s

devices an Enterprise license is required. However, using it on PowerEdge M1000e devices does not require a license.

Creating a device conguration baseline from a server does not require a license. For more information on licensing, see

OpenManage Essentials — Server Conguration Management License.