Practices Guide

Lifecycle Controller Integration―Best Practices Specification

1. System should be power off

2. Clear all unfinished jobs

3. Clear all pending data

B) Check NDC is enabled

1. GetBIOSEnumerations(): ENUMERATE the DCIM_BIOSEnumeration class to collect

information about the system. See section 2.2 for a definition of ENUMERATE.

2. Ensure AttributeName of IntegratedNetwork1 is enabled

If it is not enabled, enable it as shown below

 SetBIOSAttributes()

AttributeName=IntegratedNetwork1 AttributeValue=Enabled

AttributeName=BootMode AttributeValue=Bios

 CreateBIOSConfigJob()

 ScheduledStartTime=TIME_NOW RebootJobType=1

 Poll jobstatus for Completed: GET the InstanceID of from 2).

C) CheckConnectFirstFCoETarge(): ENUMERATE the NIC FADD and check if

ConnectFirstFCoETarget is eabled, if not, enable ConnectFirstFCoETarget as show below

 Disable all sources

 Create BIOS job

 SetNICAttributes()

AttributeName=ConnectFirstFCoETarget AttributeValue=Enabled

 CreateNICConfigJob with RebootJobType=1

D) Configure FCoE

1. Disable all sources

2. Create BIOS job

3. Set Partition Attributes as follows:

SetNICAttributes() on NIC.Integrated.1-1-4

AttributeName=FCoEOffloadMode AttributeValue=Enabled

AttributeName=VirtFIPMacAddr AttributeValue=$VirtFIPMacAddr

AttributeName=VirtWWN AttributeValue=$VirtWWN AttributeName=VirtWWPN

AttributeValue=$VirtWWPN AttributeName=MinBandwidth

AttributeValue=$MinBandwidth AttributeName=MaxBandwidth

AttributeValue=$MaxBandwidth

4. CreateNICConfigJob()

5. Set Port Attributes as follows:

SetNICAttributes() on NIC.Integrated.1-1-1

AttributeName=FirstFCoEWWPNTarget AttributeValue=$FirstFCoEWWPNTarget

AttributeName=FirstFCoEBootTargetLUN AttributeValue=$FirstFCoEBootTargetLUN

6. CreateNICConfigJob() with RebootJobType=1

E) GetBootSourceSettings(): ENUMERATE the DCIM_BootSourceSetting class to collect information

about the boot sources. See section 2.2 for a definition of ENUMERATE .

Loop through all boot sources, if boot source is IPL entry, set EnabledState=0 unless HD.

F) ChangeBootSourceState(): Use InstanceID=IPL EnabledState=0 source=(instanceID from D)