Concept Guide

The import feature applies the saved configurations to a system from the local vFlash SD card, or from a network share. It

automatically takes the back up to the vFlash SD card or a network share.

NOTE: If FIPS is enabled, you cannot perform any actions associated with the vFlash SD card, such as configuring the

vFlash SD card, exporting or backing up server profile to the vFlash, or importing server profile using vFlash.

For more information about automatic backup, see Automatic Backup Server Profile in Dell PowerEdge 12

Generation Servers

white paper available at www.delltechcenter.com/systemsmanagement.

Server license — import

Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services can import (restore) the server license of a host system. These operations are commonly used

during motherboard replacement. You can import the license from a USB drive or a network share such as CIFS or NFS.

Provisioning Server

The Provisioning Server feature in iDRAC allows newly installed servers to automatically discover the remote management console

that hosts the Provisioning Server. The Provisioning Server provides custom administrative user credentials to iDRAC so that the

management console can discover and manage the newly installed managed system.

If you order a Dell system with the Provisioning Server feature enabled (factory default setting is disabled), then iDRAC is delivered

with DHCP enabled and user accounts disabled. If the Provisioning Server feature is disabled, you can manually enable this feature

and disable the default administrative account using the

iDRAC Settings utility. For more information about the iDRAC Settings

utility, see iDRAC User’s Guide.

For more information about Provisioning Server, see the Lifecycle Controller Management profile document available at

www.delltechcenter.com/systemsmanagement.

Retire or repurpose the server

By using the Retire or Repurpose feature, you can delete server-related data such as system configuration, logs, PERC NV cache (if

available), and so on. However, an iDRAC license cannot be deleted by using this feature. Use LC-Remote Services to delete

information about the following:

• BIOS

• iDRAC

• LC Data

• Diagnostics

• Driver Pack

The user information is permanently deleted and you cannot retrieve the information. However, BIOS and iDRAC remain functional,

whereas diagnostics and driver pack can be re-installed.

Managing the web server certificate

By default, a self-signed certificate is available on iDRAC. You can generate a certificate signing request (CSR) and use the CSR to

create a Certificate Authority (CA) signed certificate. To use this feature, the following methods are introduced in the iDRACCard

profile:

• GenerateSSLCSR

• ExportSSLCertificate

• ImportSSLCertificate

• DeleteSSLCertificate

The method to support export and import operations are: