Concept Guide

Contents
1 Introduction....................................................................................................................................................5
Advantages of using Lifecycle Controller........................................................................................................................5
Benets of using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller......................................................................................................... 6
Key features........................................................................................................................................................................6
New in this release............................................................................................................................................................. 7
Advantages of using Lifecycle Controller Remote Services..........................................................................................7
Licensable features in Lifecycle Controller...................................................................................................................... 7
About Redsh and the Web Service APIs.......................................................................................................................7
About Lifecycle Controller API..........................................................................................................................................8
About one-to-many management achieved................................................................................................................... 9
Other information that you may need............................................................................................................................. 9
Social Media Reference............................................................................................................................................. 10
Accessing documents from the Dell EMC support site............................................................................................... 10
Contacting Dell..................................................................................................................................................................10
2 Remote Services Features............................................................................................................................ 11
Deployment and conguration.........................................................................................................................................11
Server conguration proles...................................................................................................................................... 11
BIOS conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 11
iDRAC conguration................................................................................................................................................... 12
RAID conguration......................................................................................................................................................12
NIC conguration........................................................................................................................................................13
Operating system deployment.................................................................................................................................. 13
Near Field Communication using the QuickSync feature...................................................................................... 14
Conguring advanced security using hash password............................................................................................ 14
Conguring USB management port.........................................................................................................................14
Monitor.............................................................................................................................................................................. 15
Collecting System Inventory......................................................................................................................................15
Hardware inventory.................................................................................................................................................... 15
Lifecycle log.................................................................................................................................................................16
System event log........................................................................................................................................................ 16
Firmware inventory.....................................................................................................................................................16
Event alerts..................................................................................................................................................................17
SupportAssist Collection............................................................................................................................................17
Out-of-band server performance monitoring..........................................................................................................17
Maintain..............................................................................................................................................................................17
Server conguration proles — export or import.................................................................................................. 18
Firmware update.........................................................................................................................................................19
Part replacement........................................................................................................................................................ 19
Server prole—export or import..............................................................................................................................19
Server license — import...........................................................................................................................................20
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