Users Guide

Use Cases in Remote Tasks
Server Power Options
Sample-Power On Device—Enable this use case to turn on the server. The system must have RAC/DRAC congured.
Deploy Server Administrator
Sample-OMSA Upgrade Windows—Enable this use case to upgrade OpenManage Server Administrator on a Windows-based
system.
Command Line
• Sample - Windows OMSA Uninstall — Enable this use case to uninstall OMSA on a system running the Windows Server
operating system.
• Sample - Linux OMSA Uninstall — Enable this use case to uninstall OMSA on a system running the Linux operating system.
• Sample - Server XML Conguration — Enable this use case to apply a specic server conguration to multiple managed
nodes. For more information, see Using the Sample - Server XML Conguration Command Line Task.
• Sample-Generic Command Remote — Enable this use case to use tokens to receive the IP address or name of inventories
systems.
NOTE: To use this command, you must enter the local system credentials.
• Sample - Generic Command Local — Enable this use case to run a command or script on system with OpenManage Essentials.
NOTE: To use this command, you must enter the local system credentials.
• Sample - IPMI Command — Enable this use case to receive information about the power status of a server.
• Sample - Remote Command — Enable this use case to view the system summary through Server Administrator.
• Sample - RACADM - Clear SEL Log — Enable this use case to clear the SEL log of RAC.
• Sample - RACADM-Reset — Enable this use case to reset the RAC.
• Sample - RACADM-Lockdown Disable — Enable this use case to disable lockdown mode of iDRAC9 servers.
• Sample - Disable Inventory Collector — Enable this use case to disable the inventory collector on target OMSA servers.
• Sample - Enable Inventory Collector — Enable this use case to enable the inventory collector on target OMSA servers.
Firmware and Driver Inventory Task
Scheduled S/W Inventory Task — Enable this use case to collect rmware and driver inventory from a server.
Using the Sample - Server XML Conguration Command Line Task
The following are the prerequisites for using the Sample - Server XML Conguration command line task:
• Lifecycle Controller 2 version 1.2 or later
• RACADM version 7.2 or later
• Firmware version 1.30.30 or later
• Express or Enterprise license
• iDRAC7
The Sample - Server XML Conguration command line task allows you to apply a specic server conguration to multiple managed
nodes. Using Lifecycle Controller 2 version 1.2 or later, a server conguration summary can be exported from an iDRAC in XML
format through the “Export Server Conguration” operation.
NOTE: For information on exporting the server conguration summary using Lifecycle Controller 2, see the Conguration
XML Workows
white paper at DellTechCenter.com/LC.
The server conguration summary XML le can be applied to another iDRAC using the Sample - Server XML Conguration
command line task.
NOTE: To apply the server conguration summary from one iDRAC to another iDRAC, both the iDRACs must be of the
same generation, same license state, and so on. For more information on the requirements, see the Lifecycle Controller
(LC) XML Schema Guide , Server Conguration XML File , and Conguration XML Workows white papers at
DellTechCenter.com/LC.
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