1. From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>POAP Definitions.
2. In the Configuration Steps, click the template hyperlink in the POAP Definitions section.
4. Specify the Template Name, Template Description and Tags.
5. Use the checkbox to specify the Supported Platforms.
6. Select the POAP checkbox or else by default, the DCNM will consider it as a CLI template.
7. Select the Published checkbox if you want the template to have ‘Read Only’ access.
8. In the Template Content pane, you can specify the content of the template. For help on creating the template content, click the Help icon next to the Template Content header. For information about POAP template annotations see the POAP Template Annotation section.
9. Click Validate Template Syntax to validate syntax errors.
10. Click Save to save the template.
11. Click Save and Exit to save the template and exit the window.