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
Easy Restore and Part Replacement may not contain the latest information when CSIOR is disabled.
In-band tools such as OMSA and DTK cannot configure BIOS when CSIOR is disabled. Also, system
information reported from out-of-band interfaces such as WS-MAN and RACADM may not have
correct information.
Hardware inventory
The hardware inventory information is cached on the persistent storage of Lifecycle Controller and is
available to iDRAC and UEFI applications. It is used to export the hardware inventory from Lifecycle
Controller to a text file on a remote share.
You can remotely query the inventory of hardware components. Each hardware inventory class contains
important attributes about the hardware components.
For example, the LastSystemInventoryTime attribute identifies the last time a Collect System
Inventory on Restart (CSIOR) was run. It is an important attribute as it indicates how recently the
inventory was updated.
Hardware inventory and configuration information is available for the following components:
• Power Supply Unit
• Fan
• Memory
• CPU
• iDRAC
• PCI Device
• Video Card
• vFlash SD Card
• NIC
• RAID
• BIOS
• System
• Sensor
Lifecycle log
Lifecycle logs contain entries for configuration and firmware updates of BIOS, Storage Controllers, LOMs,
and add-in NIC cards, if supported. The Lifecycle log can be exported to a network share or saved to a
USB drive. The Lifecycle Log is accessible through the iDRAC web interface, RACADM, and WS-MAN
interface.
The Lifecycle log provides the following information:
• iDRAC, BIOS, NIC, and RAID configuration changes
• Logs of all the remote operations
• Firmware update history based on device, version, and date
• Error message IDs
• Host power events or reboots
• POST errors
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