Dell EMC OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center Version 7.1.1 for System Center Configuration Manager and System Center Virtual Machine Manager

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:
    • 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.
  • For SCVMM users:
  • 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

You can create an Operational Template by capturing the configuration of the reference server. After capturing the configuration, you can directly save the template, or edit the attributes for update source, hardware configuration, and Windows component as per your requirement. Now you can save the template, which can be used on PowerEdge homogeneous servers.

Steps

  1. Click Create.

    The Operational Template wizard is displayed.
  2. Enter a name and description for the template.

  3. 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.

  4. 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
      ValuePrivilege
      Login
      2Configure 
      4Configure Users
      8Logs
      16System Control
      32Access Virtual Console
      64Access Virtual Media
      128System Operations
      256Debug
      499Operator Privileges
    • Operating system—select either Windows, or ESXi, or RHEL.

  5. 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.

  6. 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:

  7. To save the profile, click Finish.