Users Guide

• (Optional) In OMIMSSC for SCCM:
• Create a task sequence.
For more information, see Creating task sequence.
• For non-Windows OS deployment, have a device type credential prole. For more information, see Creating credential prole.
• Create an unattended boot media. For more information, see Creating LC boot media.
• (Optional) In OMIMSSC for SCVMM:
• Create a hypervisor prole. For information about creating hypervisor prole, see Creating hypervisor prole.
• For Windows deployment, have a device type credential prole. For more information, see Creating credential prole.
About this task
You can create an Operational Template by capturing the conguration of the reference server. After capturing the conguration, you can
directly save the template, or edit the attributes for update source, hardware conguration, and windows component as per your
requirement. Now you can save the template, which can be used for other PowerEdge homogenous servers.
Steps
1 In OMIMSSC, do any of the following to open Operational Template:
• In the OMIMSSC dashboard, click Create Operational Template.
• In the navigation pane, click Proles > Operational Template, and then click Create.
The Operational Template wizard is displayed.
2 Provide a name and description for the template. Also, provide the IP address of the reference server, and then click Next.
NOTE: You can capture the conguration of reference server with iDRAC 2.0 and
later.
3 In Server Components, click a component to view the available attributes and their values.
The components are as follows:
• Firmware update
• Hardware components, which are RAID, NIC, and BIOS
• Operating system—select either Windows, or ESXi, or RHEL
4 (Optional) edit the values for the available attributes, if necessary.
5 Select the check box against each component as only the selected components conguration of selected components is applied when
the Operational Template is applied on all the congurations that are captured.
In Operating System component, perform the steps in either of the following options, as per your requirement:
• For Windows OS deployment on SCCM, see Windows component for the OMIMSSC console extension for SCCM.
• For Windows OS deployment on SCVMM, see Windows component for the OMIMSSC console extension for SCVMM.
• OMIMSSC
• For non-Windows OS deployment, see Non-Windows component for the OMIMSSC console extensions.
6 To save the prole, click Finish.
Windows OS component for OMIMSSC console extension for SCCM
About this task
While creating the Operational Template, perform the following steps for windows component:
Steps
1 Select a task sequence and deployment method.
NOTE
: Only the task sequences deployed on collections are listed in the drop-down menu.
For information about task sequence, see Task sequence.
2 Select one of the following options for the Deployment method:
• Boot to network ISO—reboots specied ISO.
Operational Template
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