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3 Overview
The remote interface guidelines provided in this document are illustrated by command line examples of
the WS-Man protocol Web services APIs that expose the remote management capabilities of the Dell
Lifecycle Controller. The command line examples are from the Microsoft® Windows® and Linux
environments using WinRM
4
and WSMANCLI
5
respectively. The Lifecycle Controller remote
management capabilities are organized by management domain and documented in Dell CIM Profile
specifications
2
. The remote enablement feature for Lifecycle Controller 2.0 provides the following
capabilities:
Remotely retrieve information about inventory of the BIOS, component firmware, and
embedded software including version information of both the installed as well as available
cached versions
Remote update of BIOS, component firmware, Diagnostic content, DRAC content, driver
pack, power supplies from remotely located Dell Update Packages or cached images
located in the Lifecycle Controller
Remotely schedule and track the status of update tasks (jobs)
Remotely manage the Part Replacement feature by allowing retrieving and setting auto
update and auto system inventory sync
Enable re-initiation of Lifecycle Controller Auto-Discovery feature
Enhancement of Operation System Deployment capabilities by supporting the downloading
of an ISO image to a Dell VFlash SD Card and booting to the ISO image on the VFlash SD
Card
NIC configuration enables the ability to get and set NIC attributes that are configurable
using NIC Option ROM or NIC UEFI HII.
Remote RAID configuration allows you to remotely query and configure the Hardware Raid
of the system
Multiple HW Inventory views allows you to remote query the inventory of Hardware
3.1 Format for WS-Man CLI Examples in Document
The examples of WinRM and WSMANCLI command line invocations in this document are formatted
for readability and often span multiple lines in the document. In actual use, scripted or hand-typed
invocations are incorporated in one line. The examples also use substitute values for the target iDRAC
IP address, username (with ExecuteServerCommand privilege), password and other site specific
information. Actual use of these examples would require using valid values for IP address, username,
password, and so on. These values are represented in the examples as follows:
Target iDRAC IP address = [IPADDRESS]
iDRAC Username = [USER]
iDRAC Password = [PASSWORD]
Additional substitute values are used in some of the examples and are described in the
specific example. The following example represents the format used in this document:
EXAMPLE: