Concept Guide

Contents
1 Introduction........................................................................................................... 5
Why use Lifecycle Controller?.............................................................................................................. 5
Benefits of using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller...............................................................................6
Key features........................................................................................................................................... 6
What’s new in this release?................................................................................................................... 7
Why use Lifecycle Controller Remote Services?..................................................................................7
Licensable features in Lifecycle Controller.......................................................................................... 7
What is the Web Service API?................................................................................................................8
Where can the Lifecycle Controller API be used from?...................................................................... 8
Who can use the API?........................................................................................................................... 9
How is one-to-many management achieved?....................................................................................9
Other information that you may need................................................................................................. 9
Social Media Reference.................................................................................................................10
Accessing documents from Dell support site....................................................................................10
Contacting Dell.................................................................................................................................... 11
2 Remote Services Features................................................................................. 12
Deployment and configuration...........................................................................................................12
Server configuration profiles.........................................................................................................12
BIOS configuration........................................................................................................................ 12
iDRAC configuration......................................................................................................................12
RAID configuration........................................................................................................................ 13
NIC configuration.......................................................................................................................... 14
Operating system deployment......................................................................................................14
Near Field Communication (NFC) using the QuickSync feature.................................................15
Configuring advance security using hash password....................................................................15
Configuring USB management port............................................................................................. 16
Monitor................................................................................................................................................ 16
Collecting System Inventory......................................................................................................... 16
Hardware inventory....................................................................................................................... 17
Lifecycle log................................................................................................................................... 17
System event log........................................................................................................................... 18
Firmware inventory........................................................................................................................18
Event alerts.....................................................................................................................................18
Embedded Tech Support Report.................................................................................................. 18
Out-of-band server performance monitoring.............................................................................19
Maintain................................................................................................................................................19
Server configuration profiles — export or import........................................................................ 19
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