Concept Guide

1 Introduction................................................................................................................................. 4
Benefits of using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller............................................................................................................ 4
Benefits of using Lifecycle Controller Remote Services.................................................................................................. 5
Key features........................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Licensable features in Lifecycle Controller.........................................................................................................................5
What’s new in this release?..................................................................................................................................................6
About Redfish and Web Service API...................................................................................................................................6
About Lifecycle Controller API.............................................................................................................................................6
About one-to-many management....................................................................................................................................... 7
2 Operations using Remote Services................................................................................................ 8
Deployment and configuration.............................................................................................................................................8
Monitor....................................................................................................................................................................................8
Maintain.................................................................................................................................................................................. 8
3 Getting started with API collateral and links................................................................................... 9
WSMAN Profiles....................................................................................................................................................................9
WSMAN MOF WSDL and XSD API definitions................................................................................................................. 9
Web services interface guide...............................................................................................................................................9
Attribute registry XML..........................................................................................................................................................9
Event message registry XML...............................................................................................................................................9
XML schemas....................................................................................................................................................................... 10
iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish.......................................................................................................................................10
Authorization and licensing requirements for API access...............................................................................................10
4 Integrating the Lifecycle Controller API........................................................................................ 12
API clients..............................................................................................................................................................................12
Best practices workflow references..................................................................................................................................12
Sample scripts and tools......................................................................................................................................................12
Applications using Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services...............................................................................................13
WinRM and OpenWSMAN installation and configuration...............................................................................................13
5 Social media reference................................................................................................................ 14
Related Documentation.......................................................................................................................................................14
Accessing documents from Dell support site................................................................................................................... 15
Contacting Dell..................................................................................................................................................................... 15
6 Terms and definitions..................................................................................................................16
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