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Device configuration

You can use Lenovo XClarity One to quickly setup and maintain your device configurations by deploying firmware, device settings, and operating system to your managed devices using templates. XClarity One uses the templates that are assigned to each managed device to ensure that those devices maintain a consistent configuration. When devices are out of compliance, their health status changes to Critical. You can use the deployment templates to bring the devices back into compliance.

Important
You must have device-administrator privileges to deploying firmware, device settings, and operating system on target devices.
  • Firmware
    You can use Lenovo XClarity One to maintain firmware on your managed devices. You can use the health summaries to identify the firmware health of your devices, view the firmware status to know what firmware versions are available for each device, and update the desired firmware version on target devices.
  • Device settings
    You can use Lenovo XClarity One to quickly configure and maintain BMC and UEFI settings on your managed devices by learning the device-settings configuration from an existing device and then applying that configuration to your other servers. You can use the health summaries to identify the device-settings health of your devices, use templates to identify the target settings-configuration that you want to maintain on each device, and update target devices to match the target configuration.
  • Operating systems
    You can use Lenovo XClarity One to deploy the operating system to bare metal devices.
  • Device templates
    Lenovo XClarity One makes it easy to quickly setup and maintain your devices by deploying firmware, device settings, and operating systems on your managed devices using templates. Device templates consist of a set of rules and criteria that define the desired configuration for a certain type of device and identifies which managed devices are monitored for compliance. If a device is out of compliance, you can use the templates to update the device to match the desired profile.