Administrator Guide

5  ServerCloningwithServerConfigurationProfiles 
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ThisRACADMcommandcanbeusedtoexporta“Normal”modeSCPtoanNFSshare: 
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racadm get -f file -t xml -l 192.168.100.50:/myshare
Andfinally,thisremoteRACADMcommandcanbeusedtoexporta“Normal”modeSCPtoalocalfile:
racadm–r<iDRACIPaddress>‐u<adminusername>‐p<password>get–ffile–txml
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TheRACADMandWinrmSCPexportcommandswillreturnajobID.JobStatuscommandscanbeusedtocheckthe
statusofjobcompletion.Oncethejobiscomplete,theSCPfileisavailableonthespecif iedshareorlocalfile.
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Cloneprofileexport 
Iftheuserintendstoduplicatesettingsfroma“golden”sourceservertoa targetserverwithanidenticalhardware
setup,Cloneexportmodecanbeused.ClonemodeprofilesaredistinguishedfromNormalmodebyenabling
configurationsettingstobereplicatedonthetargetserver.Forthisreason,Cloneprofiles
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RAIDstorageconfiguration
‐ arepotentially“datadestructive”andshouldbeusedwithawarenessofthepotential
impactstothetargetserver.
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I/OidentityattributesarecommentedoutinanSCPgeneratedvia“Clone”mode,butauthenticationattributesarenot.
Bydefault,passwordsforconfigurediDRACusersareexportedas“calvin”(thedefaultcleartextpassword).IniDRAC
version4.40.00.00andlaterversions,thedefau ltexporte dpasswordwasupdatedto"Calvin#SCP#CloneReplace1"to
align
withthenewminimumpasswordscorefeature.Iftheactualpasswordsaretoberetained,the includeph option
canbeusedduringexporttooutputtheactualpasswordsinhashedformat.IntheClonemodeofexport,sincetheuser
intentistoduplicatesettingsincludingthoseforstoragesubsystems,VirtualDiskcreationactionissetto
CreateAuto ,
and
ResetConfig issetto True inthegeneratedSCPfile. 
The --clone optioncanbeusedwithRACADMcommandstogenerateanSCPthatisreadyforcloning: 
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racadm get -f file -t xml -u myuser -p mypass -l //192.168.100.50/share –clone
The ExportUse parameterwithoption“1”canbeusedwithWinrmWS‐MancommandstogenerateSCPfilesuitable
forcloning:
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winrm i ExportSystemConfiguration http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-
schema/2/root/dcim/DCIM_LCService?SystemCreationClassName=DCIM_ComputerSystem+CreationCla
ssName=DCIM_LCService+SystemName=DCIM:ComputerSystem+Name=DCIM:LCService -u:root -
p:calvin -r:https://192.168.0.10/wsman -SkipCNCheck -SkipCACheck -encoding:utf-8 -a:basic
@{IPAddress="192.168.100.50";FileName="file.xml";ShareName="workshare";ShareType="2";User
name="user";Password="pwd";ExportUse="1"}
Replaceprofileexport 
Iftheuserintendstoretireaserverfromthedatacenterandreplaceitwithanotherorrestoreaserver’ssettingstoa
knownbaseline,theReplacemodeofexportcanbeused.Inadditiontoauthenticationattributesthatare
uncommentedandstorageactionsthatwillcausechangestothestorage
configuration,theI/Oidentitypropertiesfor
NICsandFiberChannelcardsarealsouncommentedandexported.
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