Users Guide

available entries, click Go to Profile Log. The Profile Log page is displayed. For more information, see the
Online Help.
Completion Status And Troubleshooting
To check the completion status of an applied BIOS profile:
1. In the left pane, click Chassis Overview → Server Overview → Setup → Profiles.
2. On the BIOS Profiles page, note down the Job ID (JID) of the submitted job from the Recent Profile
Log section.
3. In the left pane, click Server Overview → Troubleshooting → Lifecycle Controller Jobs. Search for
the same JID in the
Jobs table. For more information about performing Lifecycle Controller jobs
using CMC, see Lifecycle Controller Job Operations.
Quick Deploy of Profiles
The Quick Deploy feature enables you to assign a stored profile to a server slot. Any server supporting
server configuration replication that is inserted into a slot is configured using the profile assigned to that
slot. You can perform the Quick Deploy action only if the Enable Server Profile Deployment option is
enabled in the
Deploy iDRAC page. To go to the Deploy iDRAC page, select Server Overview → Setup →
iDRAC. Profiles that can be deployed are contained in the SD card.
NOTE:
To set up the profiles for quick deploy, you must have Chassis Administrator privileges.
Assigning Server Profiles to Slots
The Server Profiles page enables you to assign server profiles to slots. To assign a profile to the chassis
slots:
1. In the Server Profiles page, go to the Profiles for Quick Deploy section.
The current profile assignments are displayed for the slots in the select boxes contained in the Server
Profile column.
2. From the drop-down menu, select the profile to assign to the required slot. You can select profiles to
apply to multiple slots. .
3. Click Assign.
The profiles gets applied to the selected slots.
NOTE: A slot that does not have any profile assigned to it is indicated by the term “No Profile
Selected” that appears in the select box.
NOTE: To remove all profile assignments from a slot, in the drop-down menu, select No Profile
Selected.
NOTE: When a profile is deployed to a server using the Quick Deploy Profile feature, the progress
and results of the application are retained in the Profile Log.
Launching iDRAC using Single Sign-On
CMC provides limited management of individual chassis components, such as servers. For complete
management of these individual components, CMC provides a launch point for the server’s management
controller (iDRAC) web-based interface.
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