Concept Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Lifecycle Controller Remote Services (LC RS) Version 2.00.00.00 For 13th Generation Dell PowerEdge Servers Quick Start Guide
- Introduction
- 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 is the Web Service API?
- Where can the Lifecycle Controller API be used from?
- Who can use the API?
- How is one-to-many management achieved?
- Other documents you may need
- Accessing documents from Dell support site
- Contacting Dell
- Remote Services Features
- Deployment and configuration
- Monitor
- Maintain
- Server configuration profiles — export or import
- Firmware update
- Part replacement
- Server profile — export or import
- Server license — import
- Auto discovery
- Deleting server-related information using Lifecycle Controller
- Managing the web server certificate
- Viewing the managed computer system using the Physical Computer System View
- Job management
- Getting started with API collateral and links
- Integrating the Lifecycle Controller API
- Social media reference
- Terms and definitions
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Remote Services Features
Using Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services, you can perform the following operations:
• Deploy and Configure
• Monitor
• Maintain
• Create and schedule jobs
Deployment and configuration
Using various Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services' capabilities, you can perform different configurations
on a system throughout its lifecycle. You can perform operations such as BIOS, iDRAC, RAID, and NIC
configurations, and operating system deployment on the system.
Server configuration profiles
The server configuration profiles file contains the component configuration information that is used to
apply the configuration for BIOS, iDRAC, RAID, NIC, FC-HBA, System, and Lifecycle Controller by
importing the file to a target system. For more information and white papers, see Server Cloning with
Server Configuration Profiles and Creating and Managing Server Configuration Profiles documents
available at delltechcenter.com/iDRAC and en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-
management/w/wiki/1906.aspx.
BIOS configuration
The BIOS and boot configuration feature gets and sets any of the configurable BIOS attributes that are
exposed in BIOS UEFI HII. You can perform the following operations:
• Retrieve current configuration of BIOS inventory
• Retrieve current boot configuration settings
• Manage the boot order configuration
• Change the BIOS boot mode or UEFI boot mode
• Manage BIOS Passwords
• Change the boot order
• Enable or disable boot sources
iDRAC configuration
The iDRAC configuration feature is used to manage the properties and interfaces for running system
management tasks related to the management of basic properties of iDRAC. The remote access
controller properties and attributes are divided into views to provide a simple methodology for the clients
to query the iDRAC views and set the iDRAC attributes.
You can perform the following operations:
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