User's Manual

60 Remote Service Features
The Lifecycle Controller - Remote Services WS-MAN implementation uses
SSL on port 443 for transport security, and supports basic and digest
authentication. Web services interfaces can be utilized by leveraging client
infrastructure such as Windows
®
WinRM and Powershell CLI, open source
utilities like WSMANCLI, and application programming environments like
Microsoft
®
.NET
®
.
There are additional implementation guides, white papers, profile
specifications, class definition (.mof) files, and code samples available in
the Dell Tech Center at www.delltechcenter.com. For more information,
also see the following:
• DTMF Web site: www.dmtf.org/standards/profiles/
• WS-MAN release notes or Readme file.
Auto-Discovery
The auto-discovery feature enables automated discovery of unprovisioned
systems on the network by management consoles that have integrated the
Dell provisioning server. The management console provides user credentials
to the iDRAC to create an admin account with these credentials so that the
discovered systems can be managed.
With auto-discovery enabled, the iDRAC6 requests an IP address from
DHCP and either acquires the name of the system where the management
console or provisioning server is located and/or subsequently resolves the
address through DNS. After acquiring the address of the management
console the iDRAC6 securely handshakes to acquire account credentials.
The iDRAC can now be managed through its newly acquired credentials to
perform operations, such as remote operating system deployment.
If you explicitly ordered a Dell system with the Auto-Discovery feature
Enabled (factory default setting is Disabled), then the iDRAC will be
delivered DHCP enabled and no user accounts are enabled. If the
auto-discovery feature is set to Disabled, you can manually enable this
feature from the iDRAC6 Configuration Utility when booting your system.
For more information on Enabling and Disabling auto-discovery feature,
see "Enable and Disable Auto-Discovery Feature."
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