Users Guide

4 Contents
Auto-Discovery Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Connecting to Provisioning Server for 
Initial Credential Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Remotely Reinitiating Auto-Discovery in New 
Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Managing Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Using Custom Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Deploying the Operating System. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Operating System Deployment Features . . . . . . 33
Remote Operating System Deployment 
Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Operating System Deployment–
Use Case Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Staging and Booting to Operating System 
Image on vFlash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Boot to ISO Methods Comparison . . . . . . . . . 40
Using Remote Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Benefits of Remote Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Supported Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Scheduling Remote Update. . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Remote Scheduling Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Managing Part Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Using Remote Firmware Inventory
. . . . . . . . . . . 47
Instant Firmware Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Supported Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Firmware Inventory Using 
WS-Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Retrieving Hardware Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Exporting Current Hardware Inventory . . . . . . . 51
Viewing and Exporting Hardware Inventory 
after Resetting Lifecycle Controller. . . . . . . . . 51