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4 Deployment and Managing Configurations with Dell OpenManage Essentials | Revision A00
8 Auto Deploy Templates ............................................................................................................................................................. 24
8.1 Auto deploy requirements .............................................................................................................................................. 28
8.2 How to setup auto deploy of a template .................................................................................................................... 28
8.2.1 Create a service tag CSV file .......................................................................................................................................... 28
8.2.2 Setup auto deploy of a template to server service tags........................................................................................... 28
8.2.3 Setup auto deploy of a template to chassis service tags ......................................................................................... 30
8.3 How to modify the auto deployment settings ........................................................................................................... 30
9 Deploy Network ISO Image ...................................................................................................................................................... 32
9.1 Deploy network ISO image requirements .................................................................................................................. 32
9.2 How to deploy network ISO image .............................................................................................................................. 32
10 Configuration Compliance ........................................................................................................................................................ 34
10.1 Configuration compliance requirements .................................................................................................................... 34
10.2 How to setup and run the configuration inventory .................................................................................................. 34
10.2.1 Modify configuration inventory credentials and/or schedule ................................................................................ 34
10.2.2 Run configuration inventory per target .................................................................................................................. 36
10.3 How to associate devices to a template ..................................................................................................................... 36
10.4 How to view and leverage the compliance report ................................................................................................... 36
11 Troubleshooting .......................................................................................................................................................................... 38
11.1 Troubleshooting creating a template .......................................................................................................................... 38
11.2 Troubleshooting deploying a template ....................................................................................................................... 40
11.3 Troubleshooting auto deploying templates ................................................................................................................41
11.4 Troubleshooting deploying a network ISO ................................................................................................................ 45
11.5 Troubleshooting configuration compliance .............................................................................................................. 45
A Additional resources ................................................................................................................................................................... 46