Users Guide

Lifecycle Controller Features

This section provides a brief description about the Lifecycle Controller features and helps know about the wizards to use Lifecycle

Controller most eectively. Each feature is a wizard in Lifecycle Controller, which supports the following features:

• Home — Navigate back to the Home page.

• Lifecycle Log — View and export lifecycle log, and add a work note to lifecycle log.

• Firmware Update — Apply updates or perform rmware rollback for the system components, and view the rmware version

available in a server.

• Hardware Conguration — Congure system devices, view, and export hardware inventory of a system.

• OS Deployment — Install an operating system in the manual mode or an unattended mode by using an 'answer' le.

• Platform Restore — Backup, export, and restore system prole. Import iDRAC license from Lifecycle Controller GUI.

• Hardware Diagnostics — Perform diagnostics to validate the memory, I/O devices, CPU, physical disks, and other peripherals.

• Settings — Specify the language, keyboard layout, and network settings while using Lifecycle Controller.

• System Setup — Congure settings for devices or components such as iDRAC, BIOS, RAID, and NIC.