Deploying a bare metal profile from the IBM BigFix console

You can deploy bare metal profiles to targets that are connected to Bare Metal Servers that have the Management Extender for Bare Metal Targets plug-in installed.

To deploy a bare metal profile from the console, you must use the Deploy Profile on Bare Metal Targets task (ID 301). You can run this task on all Bare Metal Targets that have completed a PXE boot operation. If specific settings were changed on the target, these will be used for the target configuration. For more information about changing target parameters before a deployment, see Changing target settings before deployments. Specify the following information:

Select the image you want to deploy from the list
Select the Bare Metal profile you want to deploy. This Profile must exist on the Bare Metal Server.
Specify whether you want to use Wake-On LAN on the target, if the hardware supports it.

When you are done, deploy the action.

Note: If you are deploying on a VMWare targets, see Bare Metal Deployment behavior on VMware targets.