Users Guide

Workflows

This section contains the following workflows:

• Creating golden configurations

• Creating and managing credential profiles

• Creating and managing update sources

• Applying updates on servers or server groups

• Hypervisor deployment

• Deleting servers

About golden configurations

A server configured with the preferred Boot sequence, BIOS and RAID settings ideally suited for the

organization is referred to as golden configuration. These settings are gathered in a hardware profile and

deployed on identical servers during hypervisor deployments.

Creating golden configurations

To prepare and use a golden configuration:

1. Ensure that the server with the ideal configuration is discovered and available. For more information

on server discovery, depending on the requirement, see Discovering servers using auto discovery or

Discovering servers using manual discovery.

2. Ensure that the server’s inventory is up-to-date. For more information, see Viewing and refreshing

firmware inventory.

3. To record the ideal configuration, you must create a hardware profile. To create a hardware profile,

see Creating hardware profile.

4. If you want to modify configurations, see Modifying hardware configuration profile.

Creating, managing and deleting credential profiles

To create a credential profile, see Creating a credential profile.

To manage a credential profile, see Modifying a credential profile.

To delete a credential profile, see Deleting a credential profile.