Concept Guide

Provisioning Server....................................................................................................................................................20
Retire or repurpose the server................................................................................................................................. 20
Managing the web server certicate...................................................................................................................... 20
Viewing the managed computer system using the Physical Computer System View.......................................21
Job management.............................................................................................................................................................. 21
Job types..................................................................................................................................................................... 21
System status.............................................................................................................................................................22
3 Getting started with API collateral and links.................................................................................................23
WSMAN Proles.............................................................................................................................................................. 23
Lifecycle Controller-related proles......................................................................................................................... 23
WSMAN MOF WSDL and XSD API denitions............................................................................................................ 27
Managed object le....................................................................................................................................................27
Web service description language............................................................................................................................27
XML schema description...........................................................................................................................................27
Web services interface guide..........................................................................................................................................27
WSMAN Best practices guide........................................................................................................................................28
Attribute registry XML.....................................................................................................................................................28
Event message registry XML......................................................................................................................................... 28
XML schemas...................................................................................................................................................................28
Redsh.............................................................................................................................................................................. 29
Authorization and licensing requirements for API access........................................................................................... 29
White papers.................................................................................................................................................................... 30
Lifecycle Controller and iDRAC white papers.........................................................................................................30
4 Integrating the Lifecycle Controller API........................................................................................................31
API clients.......................................................................................................................................................................... 31
Best practices workow references...............................................................................................................................31
Sample scripts and tools................................................................................................................................................. 32
Applications using Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services........................................................................................... 32
WinRM and OpenWSMAN installation and conguration...........................................................................................32
5 Social media reference.................................................................................................................................34
Systems Management forum section........................................................................................................................... 34
6 Terms and denitions...................................................................................................................................35
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