Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration Version 1.2 for Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager User’s Guide
- About Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager
- Installing and setting up DLCI Console Add-in
- Getting Started
- Workflows
- About golden configurations
- Creating golden configurations
- Creating, managing, and deleting credential profiles
- Creating, managing, and deleting update sources
- Creating, managing, and deleting custom update groups
- Applying updates on servers, or server groups
- Creating, managing, and deleting protection vaults
- Exporting server profile
- Importing server profile
- Hypervisor deployment
- Deleting servers
- Setting up the environment for deploying hypervisors
- Server discovery
- System requirements for managed systems
- Enabling CSIOR in managed systems
- Discovering servers using auto discovery
- Discovering servers using manual discovery
- Deleting servers from DLCI Console
- Viewing device inventory
- Synchronization with SC2012 VMM
- Synchronizing appliance with SCVMM
- Resolving synchronization errors
- Launching iDRAC Console
- License for the appliance
- Server management
- Profiles and templates
- About credential profile
- Creating hardware profile
- Modifying hardware configuration profile
- Deleting hardware profile
- Creating hypervisor profile
- Modifying hypervisor profile
- Deleting hypervisor profile
- WinPE Update
- About hypervisor deployment
- Creating deployment template
- Modifying deployment template
- Deleting deployment template
- Deploying hypervisors
- Viewing information in appliance
- Troubleshooting
- Account deletion in SC2012 VMM
- Comparison report not displayed in Maintenance Center
- Compatibility issue of appliance with ADK
- Empty cluster update group does not get deleted during autodiscovery or synchronization
- Discovery jobs not submitted
- Duplicate VRTX chassis group gets created
- Exporting configuration profile of another server after IP address is changed
- Error accessing the appliance after changing network configuration
- Error accessing plugin after updating SCVMM R2
- Failure to connect to server
- Failure of creation of update source
- Failure of firmware update on cluster update group
- Failure of a scheduled job on an update group
- Failure of firmware update because of job queue being full
- Failure to connect to FTP using system default update source
- Failure to create a repository during a firmware update
- Failure to delete a custom update group
- Failure to export server profiles
- Firmware update on a few components irrespective of the selection
- IG installation issue while running multiple instances of the installer on the same server
- Importing server profile job gets timed out after two hours
- Hypervisor deployment failure
- Hypervisor deployment failure due to driver files retained in library share
- Latest inventory information is not displayed even after firmware update
- SC2012 VMM error 21119 while adding servers to active directory
- Connection lost between appliance and Integration Gateway
- Hypervisor deployment fails for 11th generation PowerEdge blade servers when using Active Directory
- RAID configuration failure for virtual disks with RAID10
- Configuration of RAID failure due to configuration of hot spares on software RAID S130
- Accessing documents from Dell support site
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Viewing information in appliance
Viewing job status
To quickly search and view logs for a particular update job from among the logged messages, see the
timestamp of the update job log messages. You can view the jobs from the DLCI Admin Portal — SC2012
VMM and DLCI Console Add-in for SC2012 VMM.
1. In the left navigation pane, click Jobs.
2. From Filter, based on the jobs you want to view, select Deployments, Firmware Update, Discovery
Jobs, WinPE Creation Jobs, Sync Jobs or Export and Import Jobs.
Viewing managed jobs
To view the firmware update jobs:
In DLCI for SC2012 VMM, click Maintenance Center, and then click Manage Jobs.
Viewing activity logs
The appliance logs information about all the activities that happen in the appliance in activity log. You can
view the detailed status of the jobs such as how many servers and which all servers are pending in a job
and so on. To know information about a failed job, you can view the activity log.
To view activity log information:
1. In DLCI Admin Portal — SC2012 VMM, click Activity Log.
2. To refresh the page for information on the latest activities, click Refresh.
Viewing appliance logs
Displays a web page with the list of files that contain logged information on the activities that have
occurred in DLCI for SC2012 VMM.
To view the appliance logs:
In DLCI admin portal — SC2012 VMM, click Settings → Logs.
NOTE: You can view the firmware update LC logs under lifecyclecontrollerlogs dir.
However, for 11th generation of Dell PowerEdge servers, there is no entry in LC logs for
firmware update jobs in iDRAC.
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