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
• CA certificate for Directory Service
• Custom Signing Certificate
To use the new certificate, restart iDRAC and a new method iDRACReset are added.
For more information about managing the web server certificate, see the iDRAC Card profile document
available at en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/1906.aspx.
Viewing the managed computer system using the Physical Computer System
View
Physical Computer System View (PCSV) provides the view of a managed system such as current state and
configuration. You can directly access PCSV using PowerShell commands. Using PCSV you can:
• Receive information about the managed elements.
• Directly enumerate the CIM_PhysicalComputerSystem from the console without any prior knowledge
of a particular class.
• Use a registered profile to enumerate the implemented features.
• Invoke certain method based on implemented features.
For more information about viewing the managed computer system using PCSV, see the Physical
Computer System View profile document available at en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-
management/w/wiki/1906.dcim-library-profile.aspx.
Job management
Lifecycle Controller allows you to create, schedule, track, and manage system management tasks that are
referred to as “jobs”.
A single job or array of jobs can be run immediately or scheduled to run later. Multiple jobs are listed in
the order of job execution sequence. If a system must reboot at the scheduled start time, a reboot job
must be added to the job list.
Remote Services provides the following functions to manage Lifecycle Controller jobs:
• Creating Jobs — Create specific types of jobs to apply configurations.
• Scheduling Jobs and Job Queues — Run multiple jobs in a single restart of the system using the
SetupJobQueue() method. If a job is created without setting the start time, use the SetupJobQueue()
method to set the schedule and order of execution. The job is set up for execution at the time that
was specified.
• Deleting Jobs — Delete a specified existing job or all jobs at once.
• Reporting all Jobs — Report all jobs using a single command.
• Reporting scheduled Jobs — Generate a report of all scheduled jobs using a selection filter of
JobStatus = Scheduled.
Job types
There are two types of jobs, system-created jobs (implicit) and user-created jobs (explicit):
• System-created jobs are created when you run specific Remote Services tasks. For example, Remote
Services features such as export hardware inventory, export license, create persistent storage
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