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Acknowledgements
3 Managing Modular Infrastructure by using OpenManage Essentials (OME) | Document ID
Contents
Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 5
1 Features discussed in this technical white paper ......................................................................................................... 6
2 Prepare OpenManage Essentials for managing Modular Infrastructure ...................................................................... 7
2.1 Target device requirements ................................................................................................................................ 7
2.2 File share settings............................................................................................................................................... 7
2.2.1 Requires for file sharing ...................................................................................................................................... 7
2.2.2 Set up a file share ............................................................................................................................................... 8
3 Create Chassis infrastructure template from a reference Chassis by using IOA devices or MX Chassis template
from a reference MX Chassis ............................................................................................................................................. 9
4 View and edit Chassis infrastructure template or MX Chassis template.................................................................... 13
5 Deploy chassis infrastructure template or MX chassis template ................................................................................ 17
6 Deploy a template on bare-metal devices .................................................................................................................. 18
6.1 Requirements for deploying template on bare-metal devices .......................................................................... 18
6.2 Purpose and definition of the ‘Repurpose and Bare-metal’ Device Group....................................................... 18
6.2.1 Add devices to the ‘Repurpose and Bare Metal’ Device Group ....................................................................... 18
6.3 Deploy the template .......................................................................................................................................... 19
6.3.1 Deploy the template to Chassis or MX Chassis ............................................................................................... 19
6.3.2 Edit the device-specific attributes of the Deploy Template task ....................................................................... 20
7 Auto-deploy configuration templates .......................................................................................................................... 22
7.1 Auto-deploy requirements ................................................................................................................................ 22
7.2 Set up Auto Deploy of the template .................................................................................................................. 22
7.2.1 Create a Service Tag CSV File ........................................................................................................................ 22
7.2.2 Set up bare-metal Auto Deploy of the template to Chassis Service Tags ....................................................... 22
7.2.3 Modify the Auto Deployment settings ............................................................................................................... 24
8 Create Chassis baseline or MX Chassis baseline ..................................................................................................... 25
9 Associate devices to Chassis Configuration baseline or MX Chassis Configuration baseline .................................. 29
10 View compliance of devices associated to the Chassis baseline or MX Chassis baseline ....................................... 31
11 Make the associated devices compliant to Chassis baseline or MX Chassis baseline ............................................. 34
12 Upgrade old Chassis templates ................................................................................................................................. 36
13 Upgrade the existing Chassis Templates (created by using OME 2.3 and earlier versions) ..................................... 37
14 Recreate Chassis baselines ....................................................................................................................................... 40
15 Check configuration compliance of devices in OpenManage Essentials ................................................................... 42
15.1 Configuration compliance requirements ........................................................................................................... 42