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A golden template is a single template used to apply a unified configuration across many servers. SCP Export provides many of the details required for generating a template, but here are some general guidelines.
Configuring Active Directory on many iDRACs is a great example of how you can use a golden template. There are a significant number of Active Directory settings, and configuring them directly from the XML or JSON template could be difficult.
Instead, configure a single iDRAC’s Active Directory settings from the iDRAC UI and confirm that the settings are working as intended. Once you confirm the settings, generate a template using SCP Export with the Clone option. The template will contain populated values for Active Directory. You can adjust the template if needed and then apply it to an unlimited number of iDRACs to set up Active Directory on those systems.
That functionality is the true strength of SCP. It enables the transfer of configuration settings to many setups with a single template.