Creating Operational Template from reference servers
Prerequisites
Before creating Operational Template, ensure that you complete the following tasks:
- Discover a reference server by using the Discovery feature. For information about discovering servers, see Discovering servers using manual discovery.
- For SCCM users:
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Create a task sequence. For more information, see OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center User's Guide.
- For non-Windows operating system deployment, have a device type credential profile. For more information, see Creating credential profile.
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- For SCVMM users:
- Create a hypervisor profile. For information about creating hypervisor profile, see Creating hypervisor profile.
- For Windows deployment, have a device type credential profile. For more information, see Creating credential profile.
- If you are not using the default update source, and then create an update source. For more information, see Creating update source.
About this task
Steps
Click Create.
The Operational Template wizard is displayed.Enter a name and description for the template.
Select the type of device, and enter the IP address of reference device, and then click Next.
NOTE: You can capture the configuration of reference server with iDRAC 2.0 and later.In Device 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.NOTE: In iDRAC Embedded 1 component, following are the privileges and their values for User Admin Privilege attribute.
Table 1. Privilege value table Value Privilege 1 Login 2 Configure 4 Configure Users 8 Logs 16 System Control 32 Access Virtual Console 64 Access Virtual Media 128 System Operations 256 Debug 499 Operator Privileges - Operating system—select either Windows, or ESXi, or RHEL.
Use the horizontal scroll bar to locate a component. Select the component, expand a group, and then edit its attribute values. Use the vertical scroll bar to edit a groups and attributes of a component.
Select the check box against each component, because, the configurations of selected components are applied on the managed device, when the Operational Template is applied. However, all the configurations from the reference device are captured and saved in the template.
NOTE: Irrespective of the selection made in the check box against each component, all the configurations are captured in the template.In Operating System component, perform the steps in either of the following options, as per your requirement:For Windows operating system deployment on SCCM, see Windows component for the OMIMSSC console extension for SCCM.
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.
To save the profile, click Finish.