Practices Guide

Lifecycle Controller Integration―Best Practices Specification

I) GetBootSourceSettings(): ENUMERATE the DCIM_BootSourceSetting class to collect

information about the NIC FQDDs. See section 2.2 for a definition of

ENUMERATE .

 Loop through boot sources to confirm the NIC FQDD and “BCV” are in an instanceID

J) Set NIC to first in boot order

 GetBootSourceSettings()

 ChangeBootOrderByInstanceID(): Use InstanceID=BCV and source=(instanceID from

GetBootSourceSettings())

 CreateBIOSConfigJob(): Use Target=(BIOS FQDD)

 Poll jobstatus for Completed:

GET the InstanceID of from BIOS config job

Notes:

1) Intel will not show up in the boot list until it connects to an

iSCSI target. So if you misconfigure iSCSI or the network is down it

does not show up.

2) You cannot disable RAID and SATA HDs in the boot list. Either

disable the controller, but then they are not available as secondary

disks or move them down in the HD boot list.

3) It may be a good idea to disable the whole HD list from the boot

order until iSCSI is on the top, to prevent it booting into another

4.24 IO Identity

This workflow sets IO Identity NIC attributes by first setting the required attributes for the

operation, and then applying the changes immediately using the TIME_NOW parameter. Note

that these attributes are read-only on some NIC cards, and read-write on others (i.e. Broadcom

57712). Approximate time for completion on a 12G system is 15-30 minutes depending on the

system configuration.

NOTE: These attributes can only be set remotely, not locally. Also, if A/C power is lost,

these settings will also be lost.

Applies to: LC1.5.0+

Prerequisites for script:

 Broadcom 57712 hardware or QLogic 8262

 Set FQDD of desired NIC, VirtIscsiMacAddr, and VirtMacAddr by editing the

following script

Script: IO_Identity.win