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Dell Lifecycle Controller Remote Services v2.10.10.10 Quick Start Guide.
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Contents 1 Introduction........................................................................................................... 5 Benefits of using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller ....................................................................
Server profile — export or import ................................................................................................. 20 Server license — import ........................................................................................
1 Introduction Dell Lifecycle Controller provides advanced embedded systems management to perform systems management tasks such as deploy, configure, update, maintain, and diagnose.
Operating System device drivers directly on the server. This eliminates the media-based system management tools and utilities traditionally needed for systems management. The benefits include: • Increased Uptime — Early notification of potential or actual failures that help prevent a server failure or reduce recovery time after a failure.
• Delete server-related information • View the managed system using Physical Computer System View • Manage the web server certificate • Configure the USB management port • View embedded tech.
It was delivered as part of the iDRAC (Express and Enterprise licenses, and vFlash SD card feature) starting with the 11th generation of Dell PowerEdge servers. On 12th and 13th generation of PowerEdge servers, the vFlash feature is included with the iDRAC Enterprise license, so you need not separately license vFlash with Lifecycle Controller 2.
Lifecycle controller also supports local one-to-one system management tasks through a graphical user interface (GUI) using the server’s KVM or the Virtual Console in iDRAC for operating system installation, updates, configuration, and for running diagnostics on single and local servers.
• The WS-MAN profile documents available at Dell TechCenter ( delltechcenter.com/lc ) provides detailed information about the WS-Man commands used to perform Lifecycle Controller related tasks.
4. Select the appropriate service or support link based on your need. 11.
2 Remote Services Features Using Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services, you can perform the following operations: • Deploy and Configure • Monitor • Maintain • Create and schedule jobs Deployme.
controller properties and attributes are divided into views to provide a simple methodology for the clients to query the iDRAC views and set the iDRAC attributes.
NOTE: On Dell’s 13th generation PowerEdge server, you can now perform all RAID configuration jobs in real-time without rebooting the host. For more information on RAID configuration, see the SimpleRaid profile document available at en.community.dell.
• Deploy operating system on iSCSI and FCoE LUN. Near Field Communication (NFC) using the QuickSync feature Using the QuickSync feature, you can: • View basic server information such as Service Tag, MAC address, NIC data, firmware versions, operating system, and so on.
Configuring USB management port On the 13th generation of PowerEdge servers monitored by iDRAC, you can perform the following functions on a USB port and USB drive: • Manage the status of the server’s USB management port. If the status is disabled, iDRAC does not process a USB device or host connected to the managed USB port.
Easy Restore and Part Replacement will not contain the latest information when CSIOR is disabled. In- band tools such as OMSA and DTK cannot configure BIOS when CSIOR is disabled. Also, system information reported from out-of-band interfaces such as WS-MAN and RACADM may not have correct information.
• User login to any iDRAC interface For more information about Event and Error Messages, see the Dell Event Message Reference Guide available at dell.com/support/home . System event log The Lifecycle Log contains events related to system, storage devices, network devices, firmware updates, configuration changes, license messages, and so on.
Out-of-band server performance monitoring Using this feature, you can monitor the performance index of CPU, memory, and I/O. Intel ME supports Compute Usage Per Second (CUPS) functionality for monitoring the performance. The monitoring is independent of the OS and does not use CPU resources.
For more information about automatic update, see Automatic Updates in Dell PowerEdge 12th Generation Servers white paper available at Dell TechCenter .
Retire or repurpose the server By using the Retire or Repurpose feature, the server-related data such as system configuration, logs, PowerEdge RAID Controller Non-Volatile (PERC NV) cache (if available), and other data that are stored on a server can be deleted.
• Directly enumerate the CIM_PhysicalComputerSystem from the console without any prior knowledge of a particular class. • Use a registered profile to enumerate the implemented features.
System-created jobs User-created jobs • vFlash (Attach Partition) • vFlash (Detach Partition) • vFlash (Export Data from Partition) • vFlash (Create Partition using Image) • Reboot System st.
3 Getting started with API collateral and links Getting started with any feature of Lifecycle Controller begins at the Dell TechCenter Lifecycle Controller home page — delltechcenter.com/LC . The home page contains various sections that reference URLs, and these referenced URLs are direct links to the corresponding sections.
Profile Name Description Base Server and Physical Asset The Base Server Profile is the autonomous profile that defines the classes used to describe basic server hardware and its related software.
Profile Name Description The DCIM_LCService. ExportHealthReport() method is used to collect the EHR. That is, hardware, operating system and application data, compress the zip file, and then to save in to the respective remote share path (cifs/nfs ). The DCIM_LCService.
Profile Name Description Physical Computer System View This profile includes a specification of the physical computer system view, extrinsic methods for management operations, and its associated relationships.
Profile Name Description Simple Raid The profile extends the management capabilities to represent the configuration of RAID storage. The RAID storage is modeled as collections of attributes for the storage adaptors, physical disks, logical disks, end enclosures, and parent-child relationships between the collections.
MOF WSDL and XSD API definitions A complement to the profile documentation is the Managed Object File (MOF) that documents the class implementation of the Dell-specific CIM classes. Web Service Description Language (WSDL) and XML Schema Definition (XSD) files describe the resulting functionality.
Best practices guide The Best Practices Guide provides the work flows that group smaller WSMAN operations to achieve a particular task. To access the Best Practices Guide , from the Dell TechCenter ( delltechcenter.com/LC ) page, under the Web Services Integration Tools , click Best Practices Guide .
• Logs • Configuration results • Hardware Inventory • Attributes • Server Configuration Profiles NOTE: To access the Lifecycle Controller XML Schema Guide , use the link http:// en.
White papers White papers help you to know in-depth information about a business-critical process that you can complete by using firmware products such as Lifecycle Controller, iDRAC and so on. You can perform these processes by using GUI features, RACADM commands, and WS-MAN commands.
4 Integrating the Lifecycle Controller API This section outlines the resources required to integrate the Lifecycle Controller API into an application: • API Clients – Lists the API clients that are available to support WinRM or WSMAN. The API clients enable a you to create an application in a variety of programming languages.
• Other scripting examples — en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/ 1981.scripting-the-dell-lifecycle-controller.aspx Applications using Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services The following applications use Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services • Dell Compellent | Fluid Data Network Storage Solution — compellent.
5 Social media reference To obtain the most up-to-date information, go to the Dell TechCenter and search for the required information. Product Name and Topic Link on Dell TechCenter Lifecycle Controller http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/ 1979.
6 Terms and definitions The following table lists the terms used in this document and their definitions. Term Definition LC Lifecycle Controller Enumerate Refers to WS-MAN ENUMERATE operation as described in Section 8.2 of DSP0226_V1.1 and Section 9.1 of DSP0227_V1.
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