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OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center Version 7.1.1 for System Center Configuration Manager and System Center Virtual Machine Manager User’s Guide

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Creating Operational Template from reference servers

Prerequisites

Before creating Operational Template, ensure that you complete the following tasks:

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. In OMIMSSC, do any of the following to open an Operational Template:
    • In the OMIMSSC dashboard, click Create Operational Template.
    • In the navigation pane, click Profiles > Operational Template , and then 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 . 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.
  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.

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