Concept Guide

WSMAN Best practices guide
The Best Practices Guide provides the work ows that group smaller WSMAN operations to achieve a particular task. To access the Best
Practices Guide, from the Dell TechCenter (delltechcenter.com/LC) page, under the Web Services Integration Tools, click Best
Practices Guide. Alternatively, go to http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/white_papers/20066173.aspx
Sample scripts corresponding to all sections in the document are also provided, using WinRM on Windows and wsman cli on Linux.
The Best Practice Guide contains the detailed instructions of common work ows to perform various tasks utilizing WinRM or WSMAN.
The PYTHON scripting language is used to provide a software development kit (SDK) for the Lifecycle Controller API methods. The
following primary objectives are addressed through the SDK:
• Work ows documented in the Best Practices Guide provide guidance to established, known, and working API methodologies.
• The corresponding PYTHON sample scripts are separately provided. After invoking these scripts, the output log can be used to provide
approximate timing on a particular system conguration, and raw WinRM or Open-WSMAN input and output.
NOTE: The scripts are located here — http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/white_papers/20066173.aspx
Attribute registry XML
The attribute registry lists all the attributes and properties for the particular component in XML format. For attribute registries of RAID,
NIC, iDRAC, BIOS, FC HBA, and PCIeSSD, see http://en.community.dell.com/dell-groups/dtcmedia/m/mediagallery/20440476.
Event message registry XML
The message registry XML describes all messages, message IDs, and message arguments from all proles.
This zipped le contains the iDRAC and Lifecycle Controller event and error message data in XML, conforming to the DMTF DSP0228
message registry XML schema. The zipped le also includes an XSL le provided by Dell that enables content searching and reading easier.
To view the Dell Event Message Reference Guide document, go to http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/
wiki/lifecycle-controller#attributereg and click the latest OpenManage Software version. The Event Message Reference document
contains the error and event information generated by rmware and other agents that monitor system components. These events are
logged and displayed to the user on one of the system management consoles, or both logged and displayed.
XML schemas
The Lifecycle Controller XML Schema Guide provides interpretation of XML used by the Lifecycle Controller to describe various Lifecycle
Controller output XML content such as:
• Logs
• Conguration results
• Hardware Inventory
• Attributes
• Server Conguration Proles
NOTE
: To access the Lifecycle Controller XML Schema Guide , use the link http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/
white_papers/20270305
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