User's Manual

74 Remote Service Features
Providing Custom Server Certificates using WS-MAN
The DownloadServerPublicKey() method on the DCIM_LCService class
can be called to transfer a Provisioning Server public key certificate. The
Provisioning Server public key can be used as part of strict mutual
authentication between the Auto-Discovery client and the provisioning
server. The method takes as input a Provisioning Server public key certificate
and related hash and hash type parameters. The method returns a job ID that
can be used to check the success of the processing and installation of the
Provisioning Server public key. For examples of command line invocations
using WinRM and WSMANCLI see the Lifecycle Controller 1.3 Web Services
Interface Guide. DCIM Profile specification and related MOF files are
available at Dell TechCenter wiki in the DCIM Extension Library area
(www.DellTechCenter.com).
Remote Firmware Inventory
Remote firmware inventory enables a WS-MAN client to use the Web
services interface provided by iDRAC to instantly retrieve the firmware and
embedded software inventory of the system. The inventory, however, does not
retrieve hardware-related information, such as slot number or hardware
settings.
The firmware inventory feature will return an inventory of the installed
firmware on devices on the system and the inventory of available
BIOS/firmware on the iDRAC6 express card Lifecycle Controller. It also
returns the inventory of both the currently installed version of BIOS
/Firmware on the iDRAC6 Express card and the versions available for rollback
(N and N-1 versions) that can be installed using the remote update Web
services interface.
Instant Firmware Inventory
Instant firmware inventory allows you to run an inventory independent of
whether the system is turned on or off. Traditionally, the system firmware
inventory was performed by downloading an inventory collector onto the
operating system, executing it locally, and then gathering the results. Instant
firmware inventory allows you to inventory the host platform remotely from a
WS-MAN client, even if the host is not running an operating system. iDRAC
user credentials used for the WS-MAN request authentication requires
Execute Server Command privileges to request firmware and embedded
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