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LC_SCCM.book Page 2 Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 AM Notes NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your computer. ____________________ Information in this document is subject to change without notice. © 2009 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction of these materials in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Dell Inc. is strictly forbidden. Trademarks used in this text: Dell, and Dell OpenManage are trademarks of Dell Inc.
LC_SCCM.book Page 1 Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 AM 1 About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Features and Functionalities Auto-Discovery and Handshake Removal of PXE Dependency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
LC_SCCM.book Page 2 Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 AM Modifying Local User Account for Lifecycle Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Security Configuration Trouble Shooting . Configuring Dell Provisioning Web Services on IIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dell Auto-Discovery Network Setup Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 . . . . . . . .
LC_SCCM.book Page 3 Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 AM About This Document This document details the usage and features of the Dell™ Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager (DLCI for ConfigMgr). For information on Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) such as installation, features, and functionalities, see the Microsoft TechNet site at technet.microsoft.com.
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LC_SCCM.book Page 5 Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 AM Overview This chapter provides an overview of Dell™ Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager (DLCI for ConfigMgr). NOTE: Systems on the network should have a minimum configuration of iDRAC6 Express (henceforth referred to as iDRAC in this document) for DLCI for ConfigMgr to discover and authenticate them.
LC_SCCM.book Page 6 Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 AM After an operating system is deployed on a discovered system with iDRAC, the system moves from Managed Dell Lifecycle Controller (OS Unknown) to Managed Dell Lifecycle Controller (OS Deployed). For more information on how to configure DHCP/DNS settings, see the Dell Lifecycle Controller User Guide on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com/manuals.
LC_SCCM.book Page 7 Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 AM Setup and Use This chapter contains information on software prerequisites and requirements to use the Dell™ Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager (DLCI for ConfigMgr). It also lists the steps to install and uninstall the plug-in, and some typical console user scenarios.
LC_SCCM.book Page 8 Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 AM • Utilities regsvr32.exe and icacls.exe. NOTE: regsvr32.exe is installed on the system by default. icacls.exe is updated when you apply the hotfix from the Microsoft KB article 947870. The hotfix is available on the Microsoft support site at support.microsoft.com. • Apply the hotfix from the Microsoft KB article 947870 on systems with Microsoft Windows 2003 operating system, on which provisioning server is installed.
LC_SCCM.book Page 9 Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 AM 2 Download the appropriate .msi package for your operating system to the local drive of your system. 3 Double-click the .msi package. The Welcome screen displays. 4 Click Next. The license agreement displays. 5 Select I accept the terms in the license agreement and click Next. 6 Enter the username and password that will be provisioned on all newly discovered systems with iDRAC and click Next.
LC_SCCM.book Page 10 Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 AM Repairing the DLCI for ConfigMgr Use the following steps to repair the DLCI for ConfigMgr: 1 Double-click the .msi package that you used to install DLCI for ConfigMgr initially. The Welcome screen displays. 2 In the Program Maintenance screen, select Repair and click Next. The Ready to Repair the Program screen displays. 3 Click Install. A progress screen displays the progress of the installation.
LC_SCCM.book Page 11 Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 AM 5 Create a Lifecycle Controller boot media. This modifies the task sequence media to ensure that the deployment is unattended. For more information, see the "Creating a Lifecycle Controller Boot Media" section. 6 Apply drivers on the task sequence. For more information, see the "Applying Drivers on the Task Sequence" section. 7 Deploy operating systems to the collection by launching the Config Utility.
LC_SCCM.book Page 12 Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 AM 1 From the left pane of the ConfigMgr console, under Computer Management→Collections, right-click on All Dell Lifecycle Controller Servers and select Dell Lifecycle Controller→Launch Config Utility. NOTE: Config Utility can be launched for any collection. 2 The Dell Lifecycle Controller Configuration Utility window opens.
LC_SCCM.book Page 13 Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 AM NOTE: This step requires a fallback step for the inclusion of either the Apply Driver Package or Auto Apply Drivers step of ConfigMgr. Ensure that you have one of these steps configured with a condition in the task sequence. For more information on configuring a condition for the fallback step, see the "Adding a Condition for a Fallback Step" section. 2 A message displays listing objects referenced in the task sequence that cannot be found.
LC_SCCM.book Page 14 Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 AM NOTE: It is recommended that you set the task sequence advertisement to mandatory. 12 Create a Lifecycle Controller Boot Media. For more information, see the "Creating a Lifecycle Controller Boot Media" section. Applying Drivers from the ConfigMgr Repository Use the following steps to apply drivers from the ConfigMgr repository: 1 Add a Set Boot Order step manually before each of the Reboot to PXE / USB steps.
LC_SCCM.book Page 15 Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 AM 1 From the left pane of the ConfigMgr console, under Computer Management→Collections, right-click on Managed Dell Lifecycle Controllers (OS Unknown) and select Dell Lifecycle Controller→ Launch Config Utility. 2 From the left pane of the Dell Lifecycle Controller Configuration Utility, select Configure and Reboot to WinPE. 3 Select the advertisement that you have scheduled, to view its properties.
LC_SCCM.book Page 16 Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 AM 8 Click Reboot Targeted Collection.The console sends out a WS-MAN command to all the systems with iDRAC in the collection to boot from the specified Lifecycle Controller boot media. Once a system with iDRAC receives the WS-MAN command, it reboots to Windows PE and runs the advertised task sequence. It then automatically boots to the Lifecycle Controller boot media, depending on the boot order you created in the task sequence.
LC_SCCM.book Page 17 Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 AM 2 In the Component Configuration window, right-click Out of Band Management and select Properties. The Out of Band Management Properties window displays. 3 Click the Dell Lifecycle Controller tab. 4 Click Modify to modify the default share location of the custom Lifecycle Controller boot media. 5 In the Modify Share Information window, enter a new share name and share path. Click OK.
LC_SCCM.book Page 18 Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 AM Modifying Credentials on the Dell Lifecycle Controller 1 From the left pane of the ConfigMgr console, under Computer Management→Collections, right-click on All Dell Lifecycle Controller Servers and select Dell Lifecycle Controller→Launch Config Utility. 2 From the left pane of the Dell Lifecycle Controller Configuration Utility, select Modify Credentials on Lifecycle Controllers.
LC_SCCM.book Page 19 Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 AM [Program Files]\Dell\DPS\Bin\import.exe –CheckCertificate False Pre-authorization of systems for Auto-Discovery This security option checks the service tag of the system being discovered against a list of authorized service tags you have imported.
LC_SCCM.book Page 20 Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 AM This section contains information to configure Dell provisioning web services for IIS manually. Dell Provisioning Web Services Configuration for IIS 6.0 Use the following steps to configure Dell provisioning web services for IIS 6: 1 After installing DLCI for ConfigMgr, go to the inetpub\wwwroot directory and verify whether the folder ProvisionWS is present along with the files. Reinstall DLCI for ConfigMgr if the folder and files are not present.
LC_SCCM.book Page 21 Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 AM 1 On a ConfigMgr console installed with Dell Server Deployment Pack, launch the ProvisionWS.msi and select the default values. A new virtual website called Provisioning Web Site is created. 2 Create a new application pool called Provisioning Web Site and assign it to the website. 3 Perform the following steps on Provisioning Web Site. a If your system is running on a 64-bit operating system, set Enable 32 Bit Applications to True.
LC_SCCM.book Page 22 Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 AM c Remove the HTTP binding for port 4431. d Select the required SSL option. e Select the required client certificates option. 10 Click Apply. Dell Auto-Discovery Network Setup Specification For information on auto-discovery error messages, descriptions, and response actions, see the Dell Auto-Discovery Network Setup Specification document at www.delltechcenter.com.
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