Dell OpenManage Network Manager, Client Manual

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Deploy Configuration | File Management
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How To:
Restore a single configuration to many target devices
The following steps describe restoring a single configuration to many discovered devices without
overwriting those devices’ essential information.
1
Back up a single device’s configuration that is nearest to the kind you would like to see
generally.
2
Right-click this backed up file in the File Management portlet, and Promote it so it appears in
the Image Repository portlet.
3
Right-click > Edit the promoted configuration in the Image Repository.
4
Name the file, and, if necessary, configure a filter In the General Parameters tab of the editor.
5
In the Configuration tab, locate the parameters you want to preserve in discovered devices
when you restore this file. This can include items like the device’s DNS Hostname, IP
Address, and so on. Delete the file’s specifics and double-click to insert the Target Params in
place of these variables.
6
Save the configuration.
7
Right-click to deploy this configuration.
8
You can check Generate and save for configuration only if you simply want to configure
deployment for later, and save for now. You can also optionally name a label for the deployed
files.
9
Select the devices, or groups of devices to which you want to deploy.
10
Click Save, Execute or Add Schedule depending on your desired outcome.
11
If you click Execute , you will have to confirm this action.
When Dell OpenManage Network Manager performs the restoration (deploy), it reads the
Target Params from those discovered for each device, inserts those in the config file, then
restores it, device by device, skipping any that do not pass the filter set up in step 4.