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Dell™ Lifecycle Controller 2 Web Services Interface Guide for Windows Version: 2.1.0

1 Introduction

This document serves as a guideline for utilizing the functionality available from embedded Lifecycle

Controller Remote Enablement Web Services interfaces. The purpose of this document is to provide

information and examples for utilizing the Web services for Management (WS-Man) management

protocol using Windows WinRM and open source WSMANCLI command line utilities. Examples and

invocation information is provided for the following functionality.

 Inventory for BIOS, component firmware and embedded software

 Update of BIOS, component firmware and embedded software

 Job Control of update tasks

 Enhancement of Operating System Deployment using VFlash SD Card

 Enhancement of Discovery and Handshake from LifeCycle Controller 1.x

 Raid configuration management

 iDRAC Inventory and configuration features

 NIC configuration management

 Boot configuration management

 BIOS configuration management

The target audience for this document is application and script writers that want to utilize the remote

management capabilities using WS-Man protocol available from Dell Lifecycle Controller.

2 References

Dell 12

Generation PowerEdge Server Resources:

http://www.delltechcenter.com/12thGen

Dell CIM Profiles:

http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/DCIM.Library.Profile

Managed Object Format (MOF) files

http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/DCIM.Library.MOF

WinRM Scripting API, MSDN:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384469(VS.85).aspx

Openwsman CLI:

http://www.openwsman.org/project/wsmancli

DMTF Common Information Model (CIM) Infrastructure Specification (DSP0004):

http://www.dmtf.org/standards/published_documents/DSP0004_2.5.0.pdf