Reference Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Lifecycle Controller Remote Services v2.40.40.40 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 are Redfish and the Web Service APIs?
- 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 support content from the Dell EMC support site
- Contacting Dell
- Remote Services Features
- Deployment and configuration
- Monitor
- Maintain
- Job management
- Getting started with API collateral and links
- Integrating the Lifecycle Controller API
- Social media reference
- Terms and definitions
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
● User login to any iDRAC interface
For more information about Event and Error Messages, see the Dell Event Message Reference Guide available at dell.com/
support/home.
System event log
The Lifecycle Log contains events related to system, storage devices, network devices, firmware updates, configuration
changes, license messages, and so on. However, the system events are also available as a separate log called the System
Event Log (SEL).
When a system event occurs on a managed system, it is recorded in the SEL. The same SEL entries are also available in the
Lifecycle Log.
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