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
intended to allow consistent management of these managed elements, independent of their
manufacturer or provider.
Files that contain the normative description for classes, properties, and methods are contained within the
Managed Object File (MOF).
NOTE: To access the MOFs, on the Dell TechCenter (delltechcenter.com/LC) page, under
Reference Specifications, click MOFs.
Web service description language
The Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is an XML-based language that is used for describing the
functionality offered by a web service. A WSDL description of a web service (also referred to as a WSDL
file) provides a machine-readable description of how the service can be called, what parameters it
expects, and what data structures it returns.
XML schema description
An XML schema (also known as XSD) is a description of a type of XML document, typically expressed in
terms of constraints on the structure and content of documents of that type, above and beyond the basic
syntactical constraints imposed by XML itself. These constraints are generally expressed using some
combination of grammatical rules governing the order of elements.
NOTE: To access the XSD, use the link en.community.dell.com/dell-groups/dtcmedia/m/
mediagallery/20074445.aspx
Web services interface guide
The web Services Interface Guide (WSIG) serves as a guideline for utilizing the functionality available from
embedded Lifecycle Controller Remote Services web Services interfaces. It provides information and
examples for utilizing the web services for WSMAN protocol using Windows WinRM and open source
WSMANCLI command-line utilities.
• Windows Version — en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/white_papers/20066174.aspx
• Windows batch file examples — en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/white_papers/
20066179.aspx
• Linux Version — en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/white_papers/20066176.aspx
• Linux WSMAN shell script examples — en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/white_papers/
20066181.aspx
Best practices guide
The Best Practices Guide provides the work flows that group smaller WSMAN operations to achieve a
particular task. To access the Best Practices Guide, from the Dell TechCenter (delltechcenter.com/LC)
page, under the Web Services Integration Tools, click Best Practices Guide. Alternatively, go to
en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/white_papers/20066173.aspx
Sample scripts corresponding to all sections in the document are also provided, using WinRM on
Windows and wsmancli on Linux.
The Best Practice Guide contains the detailed instructions of common work flows to perform various
tasks utilizing WinRM or WSMAN. The PYTHON scripting language is used to provide a software
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