Practices Guide

Lifecycle Controller Integration―Best Practices Specification
15
[major change] . [minor change] . [errata]
 Increments in the major change field indicate that the profile is not backward
compatible.
 Increments in the minor change field indicate that one or more new methods
have been added.
 Increments in the errata field indicate that one more defects have been fixed.
1.6 Lifecycle Controller and Lifecycle Controller 2
Nomenclature
This section describes the new terminology associated with the new generation of hardware and
Lifecycle Controller firmware (including iDRAC). The new hardware platform is generically referred to
as 12G and all corresponding Lifecycle Controller firmware will be LC2 with accompanying sub releases
(i.e. 1.0.0, 1.1.0, etc.). The table below summarizes both the past and current generational
nomenclature.
NOTE: Data within table is for illustration purposes only.
Table 1. Generational Nomenclature
Hardware LifecycleControllerFirmware
11G LC1.5.0
11G LC1.5.1
11G LC1.5.2
11G LC1.x.x
12G LC21.0.0
12G LC21.0.1
12G LC21.1.0
12G LC21.1.1
12G LC21.x.x
Changes in the Lifecycle Controller firmware versions abide by the following definition:
[major change] . [minor change] . [errata]
 Increments in the major change field indicate that the profile is not backward
compatible.
 Increments in the minor change field indicate that one or more new methods
have been added.
 Increments in the errata field indicate that one more defects have been fixed.
1.7 System status and Configuration Job Behavior
The details below describe the generational evolution of how a typical configuration job relates to the
state of the system.