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30 Deployment and Managing Configurations with Dell OpenManage Essentials | Revision A00
10. All the service tags that were imported are listed in the ‘Auto Deployment’ tab.
11. The service tags remain in the ‘Auto Deployment’ tab until they are discovered and inventoried in
OME and the ‘Deploy Configuration to Undiscovered Devices’ task creates a deploy task for the
device with the service tag. The ‘Deploy Configuration to Undiscovered Devices’ task checks
periodically if the devices are discovered and inventoried in OME. Once the discovery and
inventory is complete and a deploy task is created, the devices will move to the Bare
Metal/Repurpose Devices group and the auto deployment entry will be deleted. Deploy
configuration tasks are created to deploy the templates that were selected. The tasks created for
the service tag entries can be found under the tasks tab in the deployment portal. Double click on
the task to view the task details. Task execution history entries can be found in the task execution
history grid. Double click on a task execution history entry to view the task execution history
details.
8.6.3 Setup auto deploy of a template to chassis service tags
A chassis template can be deployed to an unlicensed chassis. Follow the same steps in the Setup auto
deploy of a template to server service tags section. Select a service tag CSV file of chassis in step 6.
8.7 How to modify the auto deployment settings
By default, the ‘Deploy Configuration to Undiscovered Devices’ task runs every 60 minutes. When this task
runs, it checks if any of the auto deployment service tags were discovered. If the device matching an auto
deployment service tag was discovered, a deploy template task is automatically created and the specified
template is deployed to that device. To modify the execution interval for the ‘Deploy Configuration to
Undiscovered Devices’ task or to enable/disable it, follow the steps below.
1. Navigate to the ‘Deployment Settings’ tab under the ‘Preferences’ tab.
2. Check or uncheck the ‘Enable auto deployment for recently discovered devices’ to enable or
disable the ‘Deploy Configuration to Undiscovered Devices’ task.
Note: If the task is disabled, the service tags in the ‘Auto Deployment’ grid will not be deployed to
automatically.
3. Adjust the interval using the numeric control. The number is the minute interval that the ‘Deploy
Configuration to Undiscovered Devices’ task will run.