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
• Manage the status of the server’s USB port. If the status is disabled, iDRAC does not process a USB
device or host connected to the managed USB port.
• Configure the USB Management Port Mode to determine whether the USB port is used by iDRAC or
the operating system.
• View the overcurrent alert generated when a device exceeds the power requirement permitted by
USB specification. Configure the overcurrent alert to generate the WS-Events.
• View the inventory of the USB device such as FQDD, device description, protocol, vendor ID, product
ID, and so on, when the device is connected.
• Configure a server by using files stored on a USB drive that is inserted in to a USB port, which is
monitored by an iDRAC. This configuration allows creation of a job to track progress and logging the
results in the Lifecycle log.
NOTE: The USB configuration setting controls whether the configuration of the system is allowed
from a USB drive.
For more information about the USB device management, see the USB device profile document available
at en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/1906.dcim-library-profile.aspx.
Monitor
Using various Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services capabilities, you can monitor a system throughout its
lifecycle. Current and factory-shipped hardware inventory, Lifecycle Log, System Event Log, Firmware
Inventory are some of the features that help you monitor the system.
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
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