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9 Deployment and Managing Configurations with Dell OpenManage Essentials | Revision A00
3 How to deploy to a bare metal device
Example use case – Based on your data center’s needs, you configure all the settings of one server or
chassis. You have a new bare metal device or device you want to repurpose. You wish to copy all of the
settings of the configured device and apply them to bare metal/repurpose device.
To accomplish this use case you must perform the following steps.
1. Get the configuration from the device that is already configured and save it in OME as a template.
(See the How to create a template from a reference device
section).
2. Add the target device (the bare metal device) to the ‘Repurpose and Bare Metal’ device group. (See
the How to add devices to the ‘Repurpose and Bare Metal’ device group
section).
3. Deploy the template to the target device. (See the How to deploy a template section).
Note: Creating a template and deploying a template have requirements for the OME system and for the
target devices.
To review the requirements for creating a template, see the Template definition
A template is a collection of attributes that describe the settings of a device. The settings describe the
behavior of a device’s hardware. A device may have several hundred attributes depending on the device’s
hardware. An attribute is a name value pair that describes a particular setting of a device. OME installs
with sample server and chassis templates for specific use cases. A user can deploy, edit, clone, delete, or
rename a template. Sample templates must be cloned to deploy or use for compliance.
Requirements for creating a template section.
To review the requirements for deploying a template, see the Deploy requirements section.