Practices Guide

Lifecycle Controller Integration―Best Practices Specification
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33.4.4.3
Inventory
- After all jobs are executed, SSM will re-inventory the system and signal the iDRAC to re-sync its
database.
- The total timeout for SSM should include 1 minute to inventory each NIC FQDD on the target
system after job completion.
- The total timeout for SSM should include 30 seconds to inventory each RAID controller installed on
the target system after job completion.
33.4.4.4
Cleanup
- The total timeout for SSM should include 2 minutes to unload and cleanup the UEFI environment
prior to reboot.
33.4.5 RSStatus/JobStatus
- After SSM completes, the system will reboot and proceed with CSIOR, as described in 33.4.7.
- In parallel, the iDRAC will refresh its database based on updated inventory.
- The total timeout for RSStatus / JobStatus should include 5 minutes to obtain the inventory data
generated and update the iDRAC database.
- Check Status = Reloading and then Status = Ready as described in section 20 of the WSIG for
Windows.
33.4.6 Check refreshed data
- Once RSStatus / JobStatus are Ready / Completed respectively, NIC and BIOS need to be re-
inventoried to ensure that all pending data was cleared and the set values were successfully
applied.
- NIC and BIOS inventory are described in sections 33.3.3 and 33.3.5.
- Error to user stating failures if any pending values still persist or if set values weren’t applied as
required.
33.4.7 CSIOR
- On the server side, the following tasks are redone since the machine will reboot and perform
CSIOR.
- The overall timeout for SSM should include the following timeouts:
o POST – as described in section 33.4.3
o CSIOR – UEFI Initialization, similar to section 33.4.1
o CSIOR – Inventory
o CSIOR – Cleanup
33.5 iSCSI boot information
In addition to the programmatic steps shown in section 4.16, additional detailed
information about the script is added below.
1. Check FQDD if LOM/NDC or add-in
o On 11G
 Embedded = LOM
 Integrated = LOM
o On 12G
 Embedded = LOM
 Integrated = NDC
o Addins can be Slot, Mezzanine, etc.
2. Check LOM/NDC enablement