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
Server license — import
Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services can import (restore) the server license of a host system. These
operations are commonly used during motherboard replacement. You can import the license that is
stored on a USB drive or on the network share such as CIFS or NFS.
Auto discovery
The Auto Discovery feature in iDRAC allows newly installed servers to automatically discover the remote
management console that hosts the Provisioning Server. The Provisioning Server provides custom
administrative user credentials to iDRAC so that the management console can discover and manage the
newly installed managed system.
If you order a Dell system with the Auto Discovery feature enabled (factory default setting is disabled),
then iDRAC is delivered with DHCP enabled and user accounts disabled. If the Auto Discovery feature is
disabled, you can manually enable this feature and disable the default administrative account using the
iDRAC Settings utility. For more information about the iDRAC Settings utility, see iDRAC User’s Guide.
For more information about Auto Discovery, see the Lifecycle Controller Management profile document
available at en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/1906.aspx.
Deleting server-related information using Lifecycle Controller
By using this feature, server-related data such as system configuration, hard-disk drives, Self-Encrypting
Devices (SED), logs, PowerEdge RAID Controller Non-Volatile (PERC NV) cache (if available), and other
data that are stored on a server can be deleted. iDRAC license cannot be deleted by using this feature.
Log in to the Lifecycle Controller first, and then enter BIOS setup password to use this feature. You can
select components based on your requirement. You can delete data under three categories:
• System
• Storage
• Physical disk drive
Data cannot be retrieved after you delete, because the deletion process is permanent.
Managing the web server certificate
On the 13th generation of PowerEdge servers, the iDRAC web server certificate management methods
are introduced. By default a self-signed certificate is available on iDRAC. You can generate a certificate
signing request (CSR) and use the CSR to create a Certificate Authority (CA) signed certificate. To use this
feature, the following methods are introduced in the iDRACCard profile:
• GenerateSSLCSR
• ExportSSLCertificate
• ImportSSLCertificate
• DeleteSSLCertificate
The method to support Export and import operations are:
• Web Server Certificate
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