Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise 3.9 User's Guide

The deployment template is a consolidation of system configuration settings referred to as attributes. The deployment template allows for multiple servers or chassis to be configured quickly and automatically without the risk of human error.

Templates enable you to optimize data center resources and reduce the cycle time in creating clones and deployments. Templates also enhance your business-critical operations in converged infrastructure that uses software-defined infrastructures.

You can either use the predefined deployment templates or import the deployment templates from a reference device or an existing template file. To view the list of existing templates, from the OpenManage Enterprise menu, click Configuration > Templates.

To perform any tasks on OpenManage Enterprise, you must have necessary role-based user privileges and scope-based operational access to the devices. Role and scope-based access control in OpenManage Enterprise.

A device manager can view and perform tasks on the default templates and only the custom templates that are owned by that device manager.