Configuration

MetalSoft configuration and equipment registration documentation.

• Users and permissions
  • Authentication Overview
  • Managing users and permissions
  • Configuring LDAP authentication for Microsoft Active Directory
  • Configure SAML for OKTA
  • Managing Resource Pools
  • Managing accounts
• Data centers
  • Adding a new datacenter
• Networking
  • Networking overview
  • Managing switches
  • Switch replace
  • Managing switch pairs
  • IP address Management (IPAM)
  • Managing network profiles
  • Adding a new external connection
  • Adding Cisco ACI APIC Switches in a new datacenter
  • Enabling Secondary IPs and/or VLANs on the WAN interface
• Servers
  • Servers overview
  • Server lifecycle
  • Managing hardware failures and changes
  • Server types
  • Adding a new server
  • Adding a new managed server
  • Managing BIOS settings
  • Re-registering a server
  • Adding a new un-managed server
  • Managing server firmware
  • Managing firmware catalogs
  • Managing Firmware baselines
• Storage
  • Adding a new storage pool
  • Managing storage pools
• Operating System Templates
  • Managing Operating System templates
  • Template language and variables
  • Advanced OS deployment configurations
  • Managing OS templates for legacy deployment process (PXE)
  • OS templates simple asset template variables glossary (DEPRECATED)
  • JSON Schema
  • How to add boot and install drivers to a repository Windows ISO
• Resource Pools
  • Managing resource pools
• Monitoring
  • Syslog forwarding and alerting
• Virtualization
  • Managing VM Pools
  • Managing VMs