Concept Guide

Contents
1 Introduction.....................................................................................................................5
Why use Lifecycle Controller?............................................................................................................................................5
Benefits of using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller..............................................................................................................5
Key features.......................................................................................................................................................................6
What’s new in this release?................................................................................................................................................6
Why use Lifecycle Controller Remote Services?................................................................................................................ 7
Licensable features in Lifecycle Controller..........................................................................................................................7
What are Redfish and the Web Service APIs?....................................................................................................................7
Where can the Lifecycle Controller API be used from?...................................................................................................... 8
Who can use the API?........................................................................................................................................................8
How is one-to-many management achieved?.................................................................................................................... 9
Other information that you may need.................................................................................................................................9
Social Media Reference.............................................................................................................................................. 10
Accessing documents from Dell support site.................................................................................................................... 10
Contacting Dell................................................................................................................................................................. 10
2 Remote Services Features............................................................................................. 11
Deployment and configuration........................................................................................................................................... 11
Server configuration profiles........................................................................................................................................11
BIOS configuration.......................................................................................................................................................11
iDRAC configuration.................................................................................................................................................... 11
RAID configuration......................................................................................................................................................12
NIC configuration........................................................................................................................................................12
Operating system deployment.................................................................................................................................... 13
Near Field Communication (NFC) using the QuickSync feature..................................................................................13
Configuring advanced security using hash password.................................................................................................. 14
Configuring USB management port............................................................................................................................ 14
Monitor............................................................................................................................................................................. 14
Collecting System Inventory....................................................................................................................................... 14
Hardware inventory.................................................................................................................................................... 15
Lifecycle log................................................................................................................................................................15
System event log........................................................................................................................................................ 16
Firmware inventory.....................................................................................................................................................16
Event alerts.................................................................................................................................................................16
SupportAssist Collection.............................................................................................................................................16
Out-of-band server performance monitoring..............................................................................................................16
Maintain............................................................................................................................................................................ 17
Server configuration profiles — export or import........................................................................................................17
Firmware update.........................................................................................................................................................18
Part replacement........................................................................................................................................................ 18
Server profile—export or import.................................................................................................................................18
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