Users Guide

Managing Operational Templates

Operational Templates contain complete device conguration and are used for deploying operating system and update rmware for

PowerEdge servers and Modular Systems within Microsoft environment.

Operational Templates capture the complete congurations from a reference server, or reference Modular System. Then you can modify

the hardware congurations, set rmware update attributes, and operating system parameters (only for servers) in an Operational Template

if required and deploy this template across devices. Also, you can check the compliance status against an assigned Operational Template

and view the compliance report in a summary page.

For information about reference server and reference Modular System, see About reference server conguration and About reference

Modular System conguration.

The following table lists all the features that Operational Template supports:

Table 2. Functionality of OMIMSSC

Component Conguration and

deployment

Firmware update View inventory Operational Template

compliance status

BIOS Yes Yes Yes Yes

iDRAC Yes Yes Yes Yes

NIC/CNA Yes Yes Yes Yes

RAID Yes Yes Yes Yes

FC Yes No Yes Yes

Windows Yes — No —

RHEL Yes — No —

ESXI Yes — No —

Management Module Yes Yes Yes Yes

PSU No No No No

Storage No No No No

Input/Output No No No No

Network Input/Output No No No No

Topics:

• Predened Operational Templates

• Creating Operational Template from reference servers

• Creating Operational Template from reference Modular Systems

• Viewing Operational Template

• Modifying Operational Template

• Deleting Operational Template

• Assigning Operational Template and running Operational Template compliance for servers

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