Concept Guide

Server license — import

Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services can import (restore) the server license of a host system. These operations are commonly used during

motherboard replacement. You can import the license from a USB drive or a network share such as CIFS or NFS.

Provisioning Server

The Provisioning Server feature in iDRAC allows newly installed servers to automatically discover the remote management console that

hosts the Provisioning Server. The Provisioning Server provides custom administrative user credentials to iDRAC so that the management

console can discover and manage the newly installed managed system.

If you order a Dell system with the Provisioning Server feature enabled (factory default setting is disabled), then iDRAC is delivered with

DHCP enabled and user accounts disabled. If the Provisioning Server feature is disabled, you can manually enable this feature and disable

the default administrative account using the iDRAC Settings utility. For more information about the iDRAC Settings utility, see iDRAC

User’s Guide.

For more information about Provisioning Server, see the Lifecycle Controller Management prole document available at

www.delltechcenter.com/systemsmanagement.

Retire or repurpose the server

By using the Retire or Repurpose feature, you can delete server-related data such as system conguration, logs, PERC NV cache (if

available), and so on. However, an iDRAC license cannot be deleted by using this feature. Use LC-Remote Services to delete information

about the following:

• BIOS

• iDRAC

• LC Data

• Diagnostics

• Driver Pack

The user information is permanently deleted and you cannot retrieve the information. However, BIOS and iDRAC remain functional, whereas

diagnostics and driver pack can be re-installed.

Managing the web server certicate

By default, a self-signed certicate is available on iDRAC. You can generate a certicate signing request (CSR) and use the CSR to create a

Certicate Authority (CA) signed certicate. To use this feature, the following methods are introduced in the iDRACCard prole:

• GenerateSSLCSR

• ExportSSLCerticate

• ImportSSLCerticate

• DeleteSSLCerticate

The method to support export and import operations are:

• Web Server Certicate

Remote Services Features