Working with Lenovo Configuration Pack and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

The topics in this section describe how to use Lenovo Configuration Pack with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012.

• Using Lenovo Configuration Pack with configuration data
  Lenovo Configuration Pack for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager provides an easy way to author configuration data, which can be imported into the System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Desired Configuration Management (DCM) server. The SCCMDCM server assigns configuration data to its clients to evaluate whether the clients are in compliance or not.
• Launching Lenovo Configuration Pack Editor
  Lenovo Configuration Pack Editor helps you create and manage configuration data that you can export for use in Desired Configuration Management.
• Setting Collection
  A Setting Collection represents a desired object, setting, or value on a server. You can create, view, or modify a Setting Collection.
• Configuration Item
  A configuration item is a grouping of Setting Collections defined and managed by Lenovo Configuration Pack for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. You can create, view, or modify a configuration item.
• Exporting configuration data to a configuration description file
  To enable administrators to author and share configuration data, you can export configuration items and their children, Setting Collections, into a configuration description XML file.
• Importing configuration description XML file
  The following procedure describes how to import the configuration description XML file.
• Lenovo Configuration Pack CAB file
  You can use Lenovo Configuration Pack Editor to export configuration items by saving them as a CAB (.cab) file. The CAB file can then be imported to an SCCM server. The configuration items can also be deployed to SCCM clients to check the IMM/uEFI settings.
• Exporting configuration items to SCCM Console
  The following procedure describes how to export configuration items directly to the SCCM Console.
• Applying Lenovo Configuration Pack using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 console
  The information in this section describes how to import configuration data into a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) server using the Configuration Manager Console.
• Applying Lenovo Configuration Pack using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 console
  
• Running Lenovo Configuration Capture
  The Lenovo Configuration Capture function captures IMM, uEFI, and uEFI (Romley Platform) settings from an Lenovo server, and exports the captured settings into a configuration description.xml file.