Concept Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Lifecycle Controller Remote Services v2.20.20.20 Quick Start Guide
- Introduction
- Why use Lifecycle Controller?
- Benefits of using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller
- Key features
- What’s new in this release?
- Why use Lifecycle Controller Remote Services?
- Licensable features in Lifecycle Controller
- What is the Web Service API?
- Where can the Lifecycle Controller API be used from?
- Who can use the API?
- How is one-to-many management achieved?
- Other information that you may need
- Accessing documents from Dell support site
- Contacting Dell
- Remote Services Features
- Getting started with API collateral and links
- Integrating the Lifecycle Controller API
- Social media reference
- Terms and definitions
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Remote Services Features
Using Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services, you can perform the following operations:
• Deploy and Configure
• Monitor
• Maintain
• Create and schedule jobs
Deployment and configuration
Using various Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services' capabilities, you can perform different configurations
on a system throughout its lifecycle. You can perform operations such as BIOS, iDRAC, RAID, FC-HBA,
and NIC configurations, and operating system deployment on the system.
Server configuration profiles
The server configuration profiles file contains the component configuration information that is used to
apply the configuration for BIOS, iDRAC, RAID, NIC, FC-HBA, System, and Lifecycle Controller by
importing the file to a target system. For more information and white papers, see Server Cloning with
Server Configuration Profiles and Creating and Managing Server Configuration Profiles documents
available at delltechcenter.com.
BIOS configuration
The BIOS and boot configuration feature gets and sets any of the configurable BIOS attributes that are
exposed in BIOS UEFI HII. You can perform the following operations:
• Retrieve current configuration of BIOS inventory
• Retrieve current boot configuration settings
• Manage the boot order configuration
• Change the BIOS boot mode or UEFI boot mode
• Manage BIOS passwords
• Change the boot order
• Enable or disable boot sources
• One-time boot support to any device listed in the boot order
iDRAC configuration
The iDRAC configuration feature is used to manage the properties and interfaces for running system
management tasks related to the management of basic properties of iDRAC. The remote access
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