Administrator Guide

Server configuration profile end-to-end workflows
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POST action settings
Setting
Value
Action
“Oem/EID_674_Manager.ImportSystemConfigurationPreview”
Header
“Content_type application/json”
Body Parameters
“SharedParameters”
Authorization
“Basic Auth” (passing in iDRAC username / password)
After you execute a POST command, a status code of 202 is returned along with a job ID URI value for the
Location key.
5. Take the location URI and execute a GET to check the job status. You should get back a status code of 200. In
the output, you should see a message string reporting that the import preview was successful.
6. After validating that the SCP preview was successful, execute an import using action
“EID_674_Manager.ImportSystemConfiguration”.
SCP import preview will be using POST action which requires:
POST action settings
Setting
Value
Action
“Oem/EID_674_Manager.ImportSystemConfiguration”
Header
“Content_type application/json”
Body Parameters
“SharedParameters”
Authorization
“Basic Auth” (passing in iDRAC username / password)
After you execute POST command, a status code of 202 is returned along with job ID URI value for Location key.
7. Take the location URI and execute a GET to check the job status. You should get back a status code of 200. In
the output, you should see a message string stating importing server configuration profile. Continue to execute
the GET command until you see a status of successfully completed.
8. The server should already have booted to the ISO. Since we performed an attended install, interact with the
operating system installation process to complete the installation.
NOTE: once the operating system install is complete, if you want to manually detach the driver pack,
execute POST action “DellOSDeploymentService.DetachDrivers”.
Detach operating system drivers will be using POST action which requires:
POST action settings
Setting
Value
Action
“DellOSDeploymentService.DetachDrivers”
Header
“Content_type application/json”
Body Parameters
Leave empty
Authorization
“Basic Auth” (passing in iDRAC username / password)
After you execute the POST command, a status code of 200 is returned along with success message.