Web Services Interface Guide

17 Dell Lifecycle Controller Web Services Interface Guide for Windows
3 Overview
The remote interface guidelines provided in this document are illustrated by command line interface (CLI)
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 get 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 users to remotely query and configure the Hardware Raid of the
system
 Multiple HW Inventory views allows users to remote query the inventory of Hardware
3.1 Format for WinRM 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 contained on 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 values for IP Address, username and password, etc. that
are valid. 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 is typical of the formatting used in this document: