Reference Guide

Chapter 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?.............................................................................................................................................. 6
Why use Lifecycle Controller Remote Services?......................................................................................................... 7
Licensable features in Lifecycle Controller....................................................................................................................7
What are Redfish and the Web Service APIs?............................................................................................................. 7
Where can the Lifecycle Controller API be used from?.............................................................................................8
Who can use the API?........................................................................................................................................................ 8
How is one-to-many management achieved?.............................................................................................................. 9
Other information that you may need............................................................................................................................ 9
Social Media Reference.............................................................................................................................................. 10
Accessing support content from the Dell EMC support site.................................................................................. 10
Contacting Dell................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Chapter 2: Remote Services Features...........................................................................................11
Deployment and configuration.........................................................................................................................................11
Server configuration profiles......................................................................................................................................11
BIOS configuration........................................................................................................................................................11
iDRAC configuration.....................................................................................................................................................11
RAID configuration.......................................................................................................................................................12
NIC configuration......................................................................................................................................................... 12
Operating system deployment.................................................................................................................................. 13
Near Field Communication (NFC) using the QuickSync feature...................................................................... 13
Configuring advanced security using hash password..........................................................................................13
Configuring USB management port.........................................................................................................................14
Monitor................................................................................................................................................................................. 14
Collecting System Inventory................................................................................................................................14
Hardware inventory..................................................................................................................................................... 15
Lifecycle log...................................................................................................................................................................15
System event log..........................................................................................................................................................15
Firmware inventory......................................................................................................................................................16
Event alerts................................................................................................................................................................... 16
SupportAssist Collection............................................................................................................................................ 16
Out-of-band server performance monitoring........................................................................................................16
Maintain................................................................................................................................................................................ 17
Server configuration profiles — export or import................................................................................................17
Firmware update...........................................................................................................................................................18
Part replacement..........................................................................................................................................................18
Server profile—export or import..............................................................................................................................18
Server license — import.............................................................................................................................................18
Provisioning Server......................................................................................................................................................19
Retire or repurpose the server................................................................................................................................. 19
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