Users Guide

Server discovery

You can do out-of-band discovery of unassigned Dell servers and import information about Dell servers

into the appliance. For discovering servers, connect the Dell servers to the network, power on the servers,

administrator account for DLCI appliance to automatically discover the servers. Refer to the Integrated

Dell Remote Access Controller documentation for information about configuring the server.

You can also discover unassigned Dell servers by using the following options:

• Auto discovery of unassigned servers.

• Manual discovery based on IP addresses.

You can discover hyper-v hosts, modular hyper-v hosts along with unassigned servers and after discovery

the servers are added to respective predefined update groups. For more information on classification of

groups, see Update Management.

Server discovery notes:

• When you discover a Dell PowerEdge server, having an operating system deployed on it, and present

in SCVMM, then the server is listed as a host server. And marked as compliant or noncompliant.

– A host server is compliant when it contains minimum versions of LC firmware, iDRAC, and BIOS

that are required to work with the appliance.

– If the host is a modular server, then the chassis service tag of the chassis containing the server is

displayed. If the host is part of a cluster then the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the

cluster is displayed.

• When you discover a Dell PowerEdge server that is not listed in SCVMM, then the server is listed as an

unassigned server and marked as compliant or noncompliant.

• If you provide incorrect credential details, then based on the iDRAC version, the following resolutions

are available:

– While discovering a 12th generation Dell PowerEdge server with iDRAC version 2.10.10.10 and

later, during login if you input incorrect details for credential profile, based on your attempts, the

server discovery fails with the following behavior:

* For first attempt, server IP address is not blocked.

* For second attempt, server IP address is blocked for 30 seconds.

* For third and subsequent attempts, server IP address is blocked for 60 seconds.

You can reattempt server discovery with correct credential profile details once the IP address is

unblocked.

– While discovering a 11th or 12th generation PowerEdge server with iDRAC versions prior to

2.10.10.10, if server discovery attempts fail due to input of incorrect credential profile details, then

rediscover the server with the correct credential profile details.

– For iDRAC versions prior to 2.10.10.10, blocking of IP addresses is configurable. For more

information, see iDRAC documentation at dell.com/support/home. Based on your requirement,