White Papers

5 Deployment and Managing Configurations with Dell OpenManage Essentials | Revision A00
Executive Summary
Configuring a server or chassis to match precise standards can be an arduous task. Configuring an entire
datacenter is even more difficult. OpenManage Essentials (OME) version 2.0 introduces two new portals
and features to streamline device configuration management. This white paper covers using the new
features to configure a bare metal device, automatically configure and image recently ordered devices and
detect drift of a device from a baseline.
This white paper also describes step by step how to create, deploy and check compliance using the
deployment and configuration features in OpenManage Essentials version 2.0 as well as best practices and
troubleshooting for the deployment and configuration features.