Owner's Manual

Use Case Scenarios 17
• RAID controller and firmware that supports Local Key Management
Workflow
1 Launch the System Viewer utility on the Configuration Manager console
for a particular system. For more information, see System Viewer Utility.
2 Select RAID Configuration on the System Viewer utility to load the RAID
configuration of the system. For more information, see Viewing And
Configuring RAID.
3 Launch Array Builder to create a RAID profile. For more information, see
Creating A RAID Profile Using Array Builder.
4 (Optional) Import and edit an existing profile. For more information, see
Importing A Profile.
5 Save the newly created RAID profile as a .XML file to any folder location
on the local system.
Comparing And Updating The Firmware Inventory
You can use DLCI for Configuration Manager to compare and update the
firmware inventory of a single system, or a collection of systems. You can
compare the firmware inventory against a given inventory profile, Dell FTP
site, or a PDK catalog created by Repository Manager.
Prerequisites
• Common Prerequisites.
• Make sure that you have access to the Common Internet File System
(CIFS) share where the Plug-in Deployment Kit (PDK) catalog is located
or the Dell FTP site (
ftp.dell.com ).
• To compare against an existing profile, create a Hardware inventory profile.
For more information, see Creating A New Profile.
Workflow
1 To compare and update the firmware inventory of a single target system,
launch the
System Viewer utility. To compare and update the firmware
inventory of a collection of systems, launch the
Config Utility . For more
information, see System Viewer Utility or Config Utility.
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