Operating System Templates

Operating system templates define what and how operating systems (OSs) are deployed on servers and switches (NOSs).

• Managing Operating System templates
  • Listing available source templates
  • Registering a new template
  • Checking if the template has been registered:
  • Customizing a template
  • Upgrading an existing template to a newer version
  • Building a new template from scratch
  • Building a new source template for legacy systems
• Template language and variables
  • Example usage
  • Example objects and their content
  • Object schemas
• Advanced OS deployment configurations
  • Enabling the virtual media based deploy mechanism and configuring it as default
  • Enabling the legacy PXE-based deploy mechanism and configuring it as default.
• Managing OS templates for legacy deployment process (PXE)
  • An example install process
  • Creating a new OS template using the CLI
  • Specifying a bootloader and config file
  • Specifying a custom config for iPXE
  • Associating assets with OS Templates
  • Important variables
• OS templates simple asset template variables glossary (DEPRECATED)
  • Infrastructure variables
  • Pre-deploy stage variables
  • Post-deploy stage variables
  • Instance Array variables
  • Instance variables
  • IPv6 Variables
  • Drive Array variables
  • Shared Drives
  • SNMP variables
  • Datacenter variables
  • Quarantine variables
  • General purpose variables