Concept Guide

• CA certicate for Directory Service
• Custom Signing Certicate
To use the new certicate, restart the iDRAC. A new method iDRACReset is added for this purpose.
For more information about managing the web server certicate, see the iDRAC Card Prole document available at
www.delltechcenter.com/systemsmanagement.
Viewing the managed computer system using the Physical
Computer System View
Physical Computer System View (PCSV) provides the view of a managed system such as current state and conguration. You can directly
access PCSV using PowerShell commands. Using PCSV you can:
• Receive information about the managed elements.
• Directly enumerate the CIM_PhysicalComputerSystem from the console without any prior knowledge of a particular class.
• Use a registered prole to enumerate the implemented features.
• Invoke certain method based on implemented features.
For more information about viewing the managed computer system using PCSV, see the Physical Computer System View Prole document
available at www.delltechcenter.com/systemsmanagement.
Job management
Lifecycle Controller allows you to create, schedule, track, and manage system management tasks that are referred to as jobs.
A single job or array of jobs can be run immediately or scheduled to run later. Multiple jobs are listed in the order of job execution sequence.
If a system must reboot at the scheduled start time, a reboot job must be added to the job list.
Remote Services provides the following functions to manage Lifecycle Controller jobs:
• Creating Jobs — Create specic types of jobs to apply congurations.
• Scheduling Jobs and Job Queues — Run multiple jobs in a single restart of the system using the SetupJobQueue() method. If a job is
created without setting the start time, use the SetupJobQueue() method to set the schedule and order of execution. The job is set up
for execution at the time that was specied.
• Deleting Jobs — Delete a specied existing job or all jobs at once.
• Reporting all Jobs — Report all jobs using a single command.
• Reporting scheduled Jobs — Generate a report of all scheduled jobs using a selection lter of JobStatus = Scheduled.
Job types
There are two types of jobs — system-created jobs (implicit) and user-created jobs (explicit).
• System-created jobs are created when you run specic Remote Services tasks. For example, Remote Services features such as export
hardware inventory, export license, create persistent storage partition, and so on create a job and return the job ID. Polling the job status
determines the completion status of the task.
• User-created jobs such as CreateTargetedCongJob, CreateRebootJob, and InstallFromURI are used to apply user congurations for
RAID, NIC, BIOS, and so on. They can be scheduled to run immediately or at a scheduled time.
NOTE
: If FIPS is enabled, you cannot perform any actions associated with the vFlash SD card, such as conguring the vFlash SD
card, exporting or backing up server prole to the vFlash, or importing server prole using vFlash.
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