Owner's Manual

Overview 7
Overview
This chapter provides an overview of Dell™ Lifecycle Controller Integration
for Microsoft
®
System Center Configuration Manager (DLCI for
ConfigMgr).
Some of the key features of DCLI for ConfigMgr are:
• Auto-discovery of systems with iDRAC on the network
• Removal of Pre Execution Environment (PXE) dependency
• Usage of drivers from Lifecycle Controller or from ConfigMgr repository
• Deployment of operating systems remotely through vFlash and network
ISO
• Maintenance of the executed tasks’ status by the Task Viewer component
Features and Functionalities
Auto-Discovery and Handshake
The auto-discovery feature enables automated discovery and provisioning of
credentials to unprovisioned systems with iDRAC on the network by
management consoles that have integrated the Dell provisioning server. The
DLCI for ConfigMgr integrates the provisioning server within ConfigMgr.
NOTE: DLCI for ConfigMgr does not support auto-discovery of modular systems
with flex-addressing.
Once a system with iDRAC is discovered, a collection called All Dell
Lifecycle Controller Servers is created under Computer Management→
Collections in the ConfigMgr console. There are two sub-collections within
the collection:
• Managed Dell Lifecycle Controller (OS Deployed)
• Managed Dell Lifecycle Controller (OS Unknown)
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