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3 Deployment and Managing Configurations with Dell OpenManage Essentials | Revision A00
Table of contents
Revisions .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1 Covered Features .......................................................................................................................................................................... 6
2 Preparing OME for Device Configuration ................................................................................................................................. 7
2.1 Target device requirements .............................................................................................................................................. 7
2.2 File share settings ................................................................................................................................................................ 7
2.2.1 File share requirement explanation ................................................................................................................................. 7
2.2.2 How to setup the file share ............................................................................................................................................... 7
2.2.3 Troubleshooting the file share ...................................................................................................................................... 38
3 How to deploy to a bare metal device ..................................................................................................................................... 9
4 How to automate hardware configuration and operating system deployment (Auto Deploy) of recently
ordered devices ........................................................................................................................................................................... 10
5 How to detect and manage configuration drift of a device in a production environment ......................................... 15
6 Create Templates .........................................................................................................................................................................16
6.1 Template definition ...........................................................................................................................................................16
6.2 Requirements for creating a template ..........................................................................................................................16
6.3 How to create a template from a reference device ..................................................................................................16
6.3.1 Create a template from a reference server .................................................................................................................16
6.3.2 Create a template from a reference chassis .............................................................................................................. 18
6.4 How to create a template from an XML or INI configuration file .......................................................................... 18
6.4.1 File requirements .............................................................................................................................................................. 18
6.4.2 Create a template from an XML file ............................................................................................................................. 18
6.4.3 Create a template from an INI file .................................................................................................................................19
7 Deploy Templates ....................................................................................................................................................................... 20
7.1 Deploy requirements ....................................................................................................................................................... 20
7.2 Purpose and definition of the ‘Repurpose and Bare Metal’ device group ........................................................... 20
7.2.1 How to add devices to the ‘Repurpose and Bare Metal’ device group ................................................................ 20
7.3 How to deploy a template ............................................................................................................................................... 21
7.3.1 Deploy a template to servers .......................................................................................................................................... 21
7.3.2 Deploy a template to chassis ......................................................................................................................................... 22
7.3.3 How to edit the device specific attributes of a deploy template task .................................................................. 22