User's Manual

22 Remote Services Operations
Viewing the Discovery Status on the System
You can view the status of the Discovery and Handshake on the LCD
(running, stopped, suspended, or complete.)
After the system is connected to the network:
Use the Auto-Discovery setup on iDRAC Option ROM (CTRL+E) to set
the Auto-Discovery status, save and exit. The LCD displays the status as
running.
If the discovery process is running, you can view its progress code that
corresponds to how far the last attempt reached (i.e. whether Discovery and
Handshake is blocked because the NIC is disabled, or an administrator
account is enabled, and so on). You can also view the time left before timeout.
For example, a menu item could be added for Auto-Discovery at the same
level as iDRAC network setting.
Connecting to Provisioning Server for Initial Credential Deployment
This feature allows you to directly connect to a specified Provisioning Server
host for handshake and registration of the new server on the network. You can
manually configure
the provisioning server IP address or host name through the
USC console, or through a web services request using WS-Management, or
iDRAC6 configuration utility, or preset at the factory.
Set Provisioning Server Using a WS-Management Request
The Provisioning Server IP address property is set by invoking the
SetAttribute() method on the DCIM_LCService class through WS-
Management. See the profile specific chapters in this user guide for
command line examples of Microsoft WinRM SetAttribute() invocations or
in the Lifecycle Controller 1.4 Interface Guide on the Dell TechCenter wiki at
delltechcenter.com/page/Lifecycle+Controller.
The following conditions apply to using a command to set the provisioning
server IP address/hostname:
• When issuing the racadm racresetcf or updating iDRAC6, ensure to enable
the Preserve Configuration option while resetting the iDRAC6 to defaults.
If this option is disabled, the provisioning server IP/hostname is erased.
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