Profiles

Overview of Profiles

• What Are Profiles?
• Profile Settings

What Are Profiles?

A profile defines the component configuration of the systems to be managed. Profiles describe which components need to be installed and which are not required, and the action to be performed on a system.

Profile helps to manage multiple systems consistently and automate tedious administration jobs. Create profiles to record the requirements of your enterprise, and deploy them to automatically create servers and workstations. Creation and deployment of profiles handles dependencies and ensures consistency.
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Profile Settings

You can apply the following profile settings on the selected components:

• Required: Updates or packages that should be installed.
• Not Allowed: Updates or packages that should not be installed. If installed, uninstall the package.
• Upgrade: Upgrade to the latest version of the installed package.

A profile is used as a single job. The profile settings, Required, Not Allowed, and Upgrade, affect a managed host only during the actual deployment of the profile. After deploying a profile, you could run another job that contradicts the settings of the profile.

You need to have a good understanding of your systems and requirements to create complex profile settings to automate different processes.

If a conflict occurs between a profile and policy, the profile overrides the policy.

Managing Profiles

• To Create a New Profile
• To Edit a Profile
• To Delete a Profile
• To Create a Job From Selected Profile

To Create a New Profile

1. Choose Manage Profiles and Policies from the Action menu in the Update Channel window.
   
   The Manage Profiles and Policies window lists all the profiles and policies.
2. Click Action and choose New Profile.
   
   The Edit Profile window appears.
3. Enter a Name and brief Description of the profile.
4. Select the Distribution from which you want to select the components.
5. Select the Components from the list.
   
   The selected components are listed on the right side.
6. Click Add to Profile to add one or more component to the profile. Click Remove from Profile to remove a component from the selected list.
7. To remove any component, select the component and click Remove From Profile.
8. Click Save as Named Profile.

To Edit a Profile

1. Choose Manage Profiles and Policies from the Action menu in the Update Channel window.
   
   The Manage Profiles and Policies window lists all the profiles and policies.
2. Select the profile to be edited.
3. Click Action and choose Edit Profile.
   
   The Edit Profile window appears.
4. Edit the options as required. You can change the name and description, add components, and remove components.
   Click Add to Profile to add new components.
   Click Remove From Profile to remove any components from the profile.
5. Click Save as Named Profile.

To Delete a Profile

1. Choose Manage Profiles and Policies from the Action menu in the Update Channel window.
   
   The Manage Profiles and Policies window lists all the profiles and policies.
2. Select the profile to be deleted.
3. Click Actions and choose Delete Profile.

Note - You cannot delete a predefined profile.

To Create a Job From Selected Profile

1. Choose Manage Profiles and Policies from the Action menu in the Update Channel window.
   
   The Manage Profiles and Policies window lists all the profiles and policies.
2. Select a profile from the list.
3. Click Actions and choose Create Job.
   
   The Create New Job wizard appears.
4. Complete the job wizard.
   

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