Users Guide

Consider the following before modifying an Operational Template:
● The values of few attributes depend on the values of other attributes. When you change attribute values manually, ensure
that you also change the interdependent attributes. If these interdependent values are not changed appropriately, and then
applying the hardware configurations may fail.
● Creation of Operational Template fetches all hardware configurations from the specified reference server which may contain
attributes that are system-specific. For example, static IPv4 address, asset tag. To configure system-specific attributes, see
Configuring system specific values using Operational Template
● Attributes in Operational Template are assigned with current values of the reference server. Operational Templates also lists
other applicable values for the attributes.
● To modify predefined Operational Templates and custom created Operational Templates perform the following steps:
NOTE: (For SCVMM users and servers only) All the mandatory attributes. (Mandatory attributes that are captured in the
Operational Template are the Dell EMC recommended attributes for Windows server HCI cluster) required for Windows
server HCI are read-only attributes in the predefined Windows server HCI template. However, you can edit the name of the
template, operating system components, and non-mandatory hardware configuration attributes
1. Select the template that you want to modify and click Edit.
The Operational Template page is displayed.
2. (Optional) Edit the name and description of the template, and then click Next.
3. To view the available attributes and their values in Device Components, click a component.
4. Modify the values of the available attributes.
NOTE: Select the check box against each component since only the selected component’s configurations are applied on
the managed system, when the Operational Template is applied.
NOTE: When editing Operational Template, few Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) component attributes that
are read-only are listed as editable. However, when these read-only attributes are set and the Operational Template is
deployed, there are no changes that are made to the device.
● For MX7000 Modular Systems:
○ Configurations are applied only if all the attributes for a group are selected. Hence, ensure that you select all the
attributes in a group, even if you want to change one of the attributes in the group.
○ To add a new user through an Operational Template, select all the attributes of existing users that were exported
when capturing the Operational Template, select the recently added user groups, and save the Operational Template.
○ To provide the time zone values, see Appendix.
5. For the operating system component, perform either of the following tasks depending on your requirement:
● For Windows operating system deployment on MECM, see Windows component for the OMIMSSC console extension for
MECM.
● For Windows operating system deployment on SCVMM, see Windows component for the OMIMSSC console extension
for SCVMM.
● OMIMSSC
● For non-Windows operating system deployment, see Non-Windows component for the OMIMSSC console extensions.
6. To save the profile, click Finish.
Recommendation: When editing Operational Template, few Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) component attributes
that are read-only are listed as editable. However, when these read-only attributes are set and the Operational Template is
deployed, there are no changes made to the device.
Configure system specific values (Pool values) using
Operational Template on multiple servers
OMIMSSC will retrieve as is configuration of the device. Attributes which are specific to a system, for example: Static IPv4
address for iDRAC will be displayed as a Pool Value in the Operational Template. Pool Value attributes which are dependent
attributes are selected by default along with other attributes.
1. Select the template that you want to modify and click Edit.
The Operational Template page is displayed.
2. (Optional) Edit the name and description of the template, and then click Next.
3. To view the available attributes and their values in Device Components, click a component.
Manage Operational Templates
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