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
Profile Name Description
BIOS and Boot
Management
The BIOS and Boot Management Profile extends the management capabilities of
referencing profiles by adding the capability to represent the configuration of the
system BIOS setup and to manage the boot of the system.
CPU The DCIM CPU Profile describes the properties and interfaces for executing system
management tasks related to the management of processors within a system.
Ethernet Port The Ethernet Port Profile extends the management capability of referencing
profiles by adding the ability to represent an Ethernet port, its associated controller,
and Ethernet interfaces.
Event Filter The Dell Event Filter Profile provides the management capabilities to view the event
filters and set actions and notifications for the events.
Fan The DCIM Fan Profile describes the properties and interfaces for executing system
management tasks related to the management of fans within a system.
Fibre Channel The Fibre Channel Profile extends the management capabilities of referencing
profiles by adding the capability to represent the configuration of Fibre Channel
host bus adapters (FC HBA).
iDRAC Card
The DCIM iDRAC Card Profile describes the properties and interfaces for
performing system management tasks related to the management of basic
properties of iDRAC card.
DCIM_iDRACCardEnumeration class has attributes PTMode and AdminState to
support configuration of iDRAC Network Bridge in LOM-P2P or USB-P2P modes.
VNC server configuration is possible by setting attributes of Port, Timeout,
Password, Enable and LowerEncryptionBitLength.
DCIM_iDRACCardInteger has new attribute SMTPPort for SMTP configuration and
AlertPort and DiscoveryPort for SNMP configuration.
DCIM_iDRACCardEnumeration class has attributes PTMode and AdminState to
support configuration of iDRAC Network Bridge in LOM-P2P or USB-P2P modes.
Basic OMSA Equivalency: Some features (such as WatchdogResetTime
andLCLReplication) currently provided by OMSA is available on iDRAC service
module (iSM).
Job Control The Job Control Profile extends the management capabilities of referencing
profiles by adding the capability to create, schedule, track, and manage jobs that
represent platform management operations.
LC Management
The Lifecycle Controller (LC) Management Profile describes the management of
the Dell Lifecycle Controller and its configuration attributes.
The ExportCertificate() method is used to export unique generated SSL Certificates
from the Lifecycle Controller to a file in remote share location.
The DCIM_LCService. ExportHealthReport() method is used to collect the EHR.
That is, hardware, operating system and application data, compress the zip file, and
then to save in to the respective remote share path (cifs/nfs ).
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