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o Updates are staged on the Lifecycle Controller and applied immediately or during a
scheduled maintenance window.
o Lifecycle controller 1.3 or greater supports updates with BIOS, diagnostics, driver
pack, USC, RAID controller firmware, iDRAC firmware, and NIC firmware.
o CMC 3.0 or greater will enable these updates by one-to-many using the CMC GUI/CLI.
More information on the iDRAC and Lifecycle Controller can be found on Support.Dell.com.
14.3 Enclosure Management
The CMC provides secure remote management access to the chassis and installed modules. The
M1000e must have at least one CMC and supports an optional redundant module, each occupying a
slot accessible through the rear of the chassis. Redundancy is provided in an Active—Standby pairing
of the modules and failover occurs when the active module has failed or degraded. The CMC
interfaces through dual stacking 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports and one serial port. The CMC serial port
interface provides common management of up to six I/O modules through a single connection.
The CMC provides many features, including:
 Deployment
o LCD-based deployment wizard
o Single secure interface for inventory, configuration, monitoring, and alerting for
server modules, chassis infrastructure and I/O Modules
o Centralized configuration for iDRAC, I/O Modules and CMC
o 1:Many iDRAC configuration
o 1:Many blade boot device selection
o 1:Many vMedia file share
o Customized slot naming
o I/O module configuration and launch
o WWN/MAC display and persistence with FlexAddress; manages FlexAddress ports
o Support for Network Time Protocol (NTP)
 Monitoring and troubleshooting
o User interface entry point (web, telnet, SSH, serial)
o Monitoring and alerting for chassis environmental conditions or component health
thresholds. This includes but is not limited to the following:
 Real-time power consumption
 Power supplies
 Fans
 Power allocation
 Temperature
 CMC redundancy
o I/O fabric consistency
o Consolidated status reporting and event logs
 Email and SNMP alerting
 Support for remote syslog
 Blade events displayed in CMC
o Consolidated chassis, blade, and I/O Inventory
o Virtual Server Reseat simulates blade removal and insertion
o Remotely blink LEDs to identify components