Users Guide
• Remotely congure storage devices attached to the system at run-time.
• Perform the following operations for storage devices:
• Physical disks: Assign or unassign physical disk as a global hot spare.
• Virtual disks:
• Create virtual disks.
• Edit virtual disks cache policies.
• Check virtual disk consistency.
• Initialize virtual disks.
• Encrypt virtual disks.
• Assign or unassign dedicated hot spare.
• Delete virtual disks.
• Controllers:
• Congure controller properties.
• Import or auto-import foreign conguration.
• Clear foreign conguration.
• Reset controller conguration.
• Create or change security keys.
• PCIe SSD devices:
• Inventory and remotely monitor the health of PCIe SSD devices in the server.
• Prepare the PCIe SSD to be removed.
• Securely erase the data.
• Set the backplane mode (unied or split mode).
• Blink or unblink component LEDs.
• Apply the device settings immediately, at next system reboot, at a scheduled time, or as a pending operation to be applied as a
batch as part of the single job.
Update
• Manage iDRAC licenses.
• Update BIOS and device rmware for devices supported by Lifecycle Controller.
• Update or rollback iDRAC rmware and Lifecycle Controller rmware using a single rmware image.
• Manage staged updates.
• Back up and restore server prole.
• Access iDRAC interface over direct USB connection.
• Congure iDRAC using Server Conguration Proles on USB device.
Maintenance and Troubleshooting
• Perform power-related operations and monitor power consumption.
• Optimize system performance and power consumption by modifying the thermal settings.
• No dependency on OpenManage Server Administrator for generation of alerts.
• Log event data: Lifecycle and RAC logs.
• Set email alerts, IPMI alerts, remote system logs, WS Eventing logs, Redsh event, and SNMP traps (v1, v2c, and v3) for events and
improved email alert notication.
• Capture last system crash image.
• View boot and crash capture videos.
• Out-of-band monitor and alert the performance index of CPU, memory, and I/O modules.
• Congure warning threshold for inlet temperature and power consumption.
• Use iDRAC Service Module to:
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