When you have a need to enable the same services on multiple hosts, creating a template and applying it to the applicable hosts can save you time. You can apply one template to up to 100 hosts without the hassle of creating the same configurations repeatedly. In addition, each template can serve up to 500 hosts. Using templates can also simplify planning, deployment, and maintenance for your BloxOne infrastructure.
A template is a set of service configurations you have defined for a host. When creating a template, BloxOne Manually configuring multiple NIOS-X servers with the same set of services can be cumbersome and error prone. To simplify the planning, deployment and maintenance of your servers, you can create and apply templates to groups of multiple servers to enforce a common server configuration.
A template contains a set of service names, service types, service descriptions, service tags, and interface labels (interface bindings) you have defined for a server. To create a template, you select an existing server and the Infoblox platform takes a snapshot of the service configurations on the host, including the following information: service name, service type, service description, service tags, and interface labels (interface bindings). After you create a template, you can apply it to other hosts that require the same service configurationsthat server.
When assigning a template to servers, you can assign the template to up to 100 servers at a time. In total, you can apply a single template to up to a maximum of 500 servers.
After applying a template to one or more hostsservers, you have the option to set a specific lock type on individual hosts servers to handle the following situations:
Ensure that the hosts servers adhere to the template configurations.
Add, modify, or delete services on certain hosts servers to which you have applied a template.
Test a particular service configuration on the hostsservers.
For information on how to set lock type on a hostserver, see Setting Lock Type on Hostsservers.
The Cloud Services Infoblox Portal logs the following template actions to the audit log: create, update, apply, and delete. For information, see Viewing Audit Logs.
The Manage Configure > Infrastructure Service Deployment > Protocol Service Templates page provides a card view and a table view for displaying information. You can toggle between the card and table view by clicking the icon on the upper right corner of the navigation bar.
Card view
Table view
By default, the card view displays the list of all configured templates.
When you toggle to the table view, the Protocol Service Templates page can display some or all of the following fields. By clicking the hamburger menu next to the fields, you have the flexibility to select or deselect the fields (including associated tags) as well as their order to be displayed in the table view.
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Perform a local search to view templates based on your filtering criteria; and you can page through the results. BloxOne The Infoblox platform supports the following field for local search on the Templates page: Name.
Click the Sort by drop-down menu to sort the list of templates by available fields, such as Created, Template Name, and Updated.
Click the down arrow on the right to expand the panel to view service information of the template and the hosts servers to which the template has been applied. The Cloud Services Infoblox Portal display up to five hosts servers in this panel. To view the full list of hosts servers for a template, click … > General Information > Host Server tab.
Click … > General Information to view detailed information about the template and the hosts servers on which the template was applied.
Filter information by template name or the name of the host server on which you have applied the template.
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