Users Guide

● While using the system profile, exporting a system profile with Enterprise license and importing the same system profile
on servers with Express license fails.
● You cannot import system profile by using the Express license of iDRAC9 firmware 3.00.00.00. You must have an
Enterprise license.
Related tasks
Create system profile on page 59
Edit system profile on page 60
View system profile on page 61
Delete system profile on page 61
Create system profile
Dell EMC recommends using Google Chrome to create or edit System Profile.
1. On the OMIVV home page, click Compliance & Deployment > Profiles > System Profile > CREATE NEW PROFILE.
2. On the Create System Profile page of the wizard, read the instructions, and then click GET STARTED.
3. On the Name and Description page, do the following:
a. Enter profile name and description. The description field is an optional field.
b. Select any one of the following system profile types:
● Basic—Displays the minimal set of attributes for iDRAC, BIOS, RAID, NIC, and FC.
● Advanced—Displays all the attributes for iDRAC, BIOS, RAID, NIC, FC, and EventFilters.
4. On the Reference Server page, to select a reference server that is either a host or a bare-metal, click SELECT.
The server selection may be disabled because of any one of the following reasons:
● The server is either a noncompliant host or noncompliant bare-metal server.
● A deployment job is either scheduled or running on the server.
● The server is managed using the chassis credential profile.
The Extract Confirmation dialog box is displayed.
5. To extract the system configuration from the reference server, click OK.
Extracting the system configuration from the reference server might take few minutes.
6. Review the reference server details and click NEXT.
● To change the reference server on the Select Reference Server page, click BROWSE.
If the reference server is of bare-metal type, only its iDRAC IP is displayed. If the reference server itself is a host server,
both the iDRAC and host (FQDN) IPs are displayed.
The Profile Settings page is displayed.
7. On the Profile Settings page, you can view or modify the profile settings for the components such as iDRAC, BIOS, RAID,
NIC, CNA, FCoE, and EvenFilters based on the configuration of the reference server. By default, platform-specific and
read-only attributes are not listed. For more information about platform-specific attributes, see System specific attributes on
page 149.
NOTE:
Pseudo attributes are not displayed in system profile. For more information, see the Server Configuration XML
File document.
Before selecting the attributes other than the attributes that are selected by default, check the nature of attribute,
dependency, and other details.
If you select the attributes other than the attributes that are selected by default, the following message is displayed:
These attributes may affect other dependent attributes, or are destructive in nature, or dissolve server identity, or affect
security of the target servers.
NOTE:
For 12th and 13th generation of PowerEdge servers, some of the attributes may not map dependency properly
in OMIVV. For example, Memory Operating Voltage component of BIOS is Read-only unless the system profile is set to
Custom in System BIOS Settings.
a. Expand each component to view the setting options such as Instance, Attribute Name, Value, Destructive,
Dependency, and Group.
Deployment
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