Skip to main content

Assigning and deploying a server-configuration pattern

You can assign and deploy a server-configuration pattern to one or more managed servers.

Before you begin

  • Ensure that you read the server-configuration considerations before you assign or deploy a pattern to a server (see Update deployment considerations).

  • Ensure that the servers that you want to configure are up to date with the latest firmware.

  • Do not assign or deploy a server pattern that was created for one server type to another server type.

  • XClarity Orchestrator does not prevent you from assigning or deploying a server-configuration pattern to a server that has an assigned pattern or server profile in Lenovo XClarity Administrator. Deploying a pattern using XClarity Orchestrator might affect pattern compliance in XClarity Administrator.
  • XClarity Orchestrator does not assign IP and I/O addresses to individual servers when the server patterns are deployed.

About this task

When a pattern is assigned to a server, XClarity Orchestrator runs a compliance check to compare the current configuration settings on the server with the settings in the configuration pattern and updates the Compliance Status column based on the results. The compliance status can be one of the following values.

  • Compliant. All configuration settings in the assigned pattern match the settings on the server.
  • Noncompliant. One or more configuration setting in the assigned pattern do not match settings on the server. Hover the mouse over the table cell to display a pop-up that lists the mismatched settings and values.
  • Pending. A pattern deployment or compliance check is in progress.
  • Pending Restart. The server needs to be restarted to activate the configuration changes after pattern deployment.
  • Not Available. A pattern is not assigned to the server.

When you deploy a pattern to a server, XClarity Orchestrator modifies the settings of the server to match its assigned server-configuration pattern. When the deployment is complete, XClarity Orchestrator runs the compliance check to verify that the settings in the assigned pattern match the setting on the server, and then updates the compliance status for the server.

Procedure

To assign and deploy a server-configuration pattern to one or more servers, complete the following steps.

  1. From the XClarity Orchestrator menu bar, click Provisioning (Provisioning icon) > Server Configuration and then click the Assign and Deploy tab to display the Assign and Deploy Server-Configuration Patterns card.

    Assign and Deploy card
  2. Assign a pattern to one or more servers.
    1. Select one or more servers.
    2. Click the Assign icon (Assign pattern icon) to display the Assign Server Configuration Pattern dialog.
      Assign Server-Configuration Pattern dialog
    3. Select the pattern that you want to assign.
      Note
      • This list shows all applicable patterns for the specific servers. The list might be incomplete if the orchestrator server is still calculating the applicable patterns. In this case, close the dialog, wait some time, and then open the dialog again.
      • Select the No Assignment pattern to unassign a pattern from the selected list of devices.
    4. Select the assignment rule. This can be one of the following values.
      • All applicable devices (overwrite assigned patterns)
      • Applicable devices with no pattern assignment
      • Only selected applicable devices (overwrite assigned patterns)
      • Only selected applicable devices with no pattern assignment
    5. Click Assign.
  3. Deploy the assigned pattern on specific servers.
    1. Select one or more servers.
      Note
      Unsupported device models are displayed in grey text and cannot be selected.
    2. Click the Deploy icon (Deploy pattern icon) to display the Deploy Server-Configuration Pattern dialog.
      Delpoy Server-Configuration Pattern dialog
    3. Choose when to activate the updates.
      • Deferred activation activates all configuration changes after the next server restart. The target server must be restarted manually to continue the deployment process.
        Important
        Use Restart Normally to restart the server to continue the update process. Do not use Restart Immediately.
    4. Click Deploy.

      A job is created to perform this operation. You can monitor the progress of the job from the Monitoring (Monitoring icon) > Jobs card. If the job did not complete successfully, click the job link to display details about the job (see Monitoring jobs.)

After you finish

You can perform the following actions from the Patterns card.
  • Manually run a configuration-compliance check on selected servers by clicking All Actions > Compliance Check.
  • Unassign a pattern from one or more target servers by assigning the No Assignment pattern.
  • Troubleshoot issues when deploying a pattern (see Troubleshooting server-configuration issues).
  • Forward reports about configuration-compliance on a reoccurring basis to one or more email addresses by clicking the Create Report Forwarder icon (Add icon). The report is sent using the data filters that are currently applied to the table. All shown and hidden table columns are included in the report. For more information, see Forwarding reports.
  • Add a configuration-compliance report to a specific report forwarder using the data filters that are currently applied to the table by clicking the Add to Report Forwarder icon (Add to report icon. If the report forwarder already includes a configuration-compliance report, the report is updated to use the current data filters.