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
as reboot, power cycle, or power off the system), the action is performed. You can set only one action for
an event.
Embedded Tech Support Report
Embedded Tech Support Report is used to provide information about health report of Hardware,
Operating System (OS), and software applications installed on a server. This feature includes application
information collected by Dell System E-Support Tool (DSET). This report is used by administrators to
resolve business-critical issues. Examples of data collected in an Embedded Tech Support Report are:
• Hardware and inventory
• Info related to the server, Lifecycle Controller, and its components
• BIOS order boot information
• Lifecycle Controller log entries
• Firmware-related information
• vFlash SD Card partition information
Monitoring the out-of-band performance
Using this feature, you can monitor the performance index of CPU, memory, and I/O. Intel ME supports
Compute Usage Per Second (CUPS) functionality for monitoring the performance. The monitoring is
independent of the OS and does not use CPU resources. The Intel ME displays a platform CUPS sensor
that provides the Computation, Memory and I/O resource utilization value in the form of a platform
“CUPS Index”. iDRAC monitors this CUPS index for overall system utilization and also the instant value of
CPU, Memory, and I/O utilization index.
NOTE: To use this feature, iDRAC enterprise license is required.
For more information about monitoring the out-of-band performance, see the Base Metrics and Sensors
profile document available at en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/
1906.dcim-library-profile.aspx.
Maintain
Using various Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services capabilities, you can maintain the health of a system
throughout its lifecycle. You can use features such as remote firmware management, part replacement,
server profile import or export, and auto-discovery to maintain a system using Lifecycle Controller-
Remote Services.
Server configuration profiles — export or import
Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services can export or import a Server Configuration Profiles file. The export
operation collects the configuration information for BIOS, iDRAC, RAID, NIC, FC-HBA, System, and
Lifecycle Controller and stores it in a single file that is copied to a network share. The Import operation
imports the file from a network share, and applies the previously saved or updated configurations to a
system. For more information, see Server Cloning with Server Configuration Profiles and Creating and
Managing Server Configuration Profiles documents available at en.community.dell.com/techcenter/
systems-management/w/wiki/1906.aspx.
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