View and Manage Templates

Use the AIX Profile Manager Template page to create or edit a template. This page includes an AIX Profile Manager profile and the options to configure that are required to deploy this profile on system managed by AIX Profile Manager. You can use the Configuration Manager deployment mechanisms to deploy templates. To deploy a template, select an AIX Profile Manager template in the Configuration Manager templates table and click Deploy.

Introduction

The AIX Profile Manager Create Template page consists of the following sections:
  • Template Profile
  • Template Options
Only profiles that have values can be used when creating an AIX Profile Manager template. Once you have made all your selections, click Save to create the template or save the changes you made to an existing template. Click Cancel to return to the Configuration Templates page without saving your changes.

Template Profile

Select the AIX Profile Manager profile to use for the template. Click Browse to open a popup that displays the list of available profiles. Only profiles that contain values are displayed in the profiles list. The table contains two columns: the profile name and the profile type (reboot, disruptive, or dynamic). Click Import to add new profiles to the list of available profiles. The template can contain only one AIX Profile Manager profile.

Actions

Import
Select this action to open the Import task to add profiles to the Director server. You can import profiles from your local hard disk drive, from a LDAP server, or from remote systems.

Template Options

This section is divided into the subsections: General options, Boot profile options, and Master profile management.

General options
The following are the general options:
Perform check after deployment
Perform a hidden retrieve operation after the deployment. This method checks that the values are set to the specified values. If differences are found, the deployment operation fails and the systems configuration is rolled back to its previous configuration.
Roll back on failure
Create a rollback profile on the system with the current configuration of the parameters. If an error occurs during the deployment operation, the rollback profile is applied to reset all the parameters of the system to their previous configuration. To roll back the configuration of the system to the state when the first deployment error occurs, delete this option (values might have already been set).
Do not create a rollback profile
Prevent the creation of a rollback profile when you perform the deployment. If an error occurs during deployment and if a rollback on failure is specified, the system is reset to the previously saved configuration.
Boot Profile Option
Select the type of parameters that are set on the system when the template is deployed. Possible values follows:
  • All parameters: Select this option to set all the parameters in the profile. This option is the default setting.
  • Dynamic parameters: Select this option to exclude parameters that require the system to reboot or a disruptive operation, for example, a bosboot to be performed before the parameter is set.
  • No reboot parameters: Select this option to exclude parameters that require the system to reboot before being set.
  • Reboot parameters: Select this option to include only parameters that require the system to reboot before being set.
Master profile management
The master profile is a specific AIX Profile Manager profile that is deployed automatically on the system each time it is rebooted or shut down. When setting a master profile, the following configuration options are mandatory:
  • Do not perform check after deployment
  • Roll back on failure
  • Create a rollback profile
  • Boot profile option is All parameters
Set master profile
Select this option to deploy the template profile. Additionally, this option also defines the template as the AIX Profile Manager master profile. If an error occurs during deployment, the profile is not defined as the master profile of the system. The system is then rolled back to its previous configuration. If the deployment is successful, this template is recorded as the last deployed template and is the master profile of the system.
Unset master profile
Select this option to replace the existing master profile, if any, with an empty profile, after deploying the selected template.