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
machine-readable schema, with the payload of the messages expressed in JSON and the protocol using OData v4. Redfish is a
hypermedia API, and can represent various implementations using a consistent interface. It has mechanisms for discovering and
managing data center resources, handling events, and managing long-lived tasks.
Where can the Lifecycle Controller API be used from?
Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services is a standards-based interface that enables consoles to integrate, for example, bare-metal
provisioning and one-to-many operating system deployments for remotely located servers. Dell’s Lifecycle Controller takes
advantage of the capabilities of both Lifecycle Controller GUI and Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services to deliver significant
improvement and simplification of server deployment.
Lifecycle controller also supports local one-to-one system management tasks through a graphical user interface
(GUI) using the server’s KVM or the Virtual Console in iDRAC for operating system installation, updates,
configuration, and for running diagnostics on single and local servers. This eliminates the need for multiple
option ROMs for hardware configuration. For more information, see Lifecycle Controller User’s Guide, available at
delltechcenter.com/lc.
Who can use the API?
Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services features are available based on the type of license (that is, Basic Management, iDRAC
Express, iDRAC Express for Blades, or iDRAC Enterprise) you purchase. Only licensed features are available in the iDRAC web
interface and Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services. For more information about managing licenses, see iDRAC User’s Guide. For
more information about Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services licensing, see Licensing.
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Introduction