Owner's Manual

Hardware Configuration And Operating System
Deployment Workflow
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Updating Firmware During Operating System
Deployment
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Configuring BIOS During Operating System
Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Configuring RAID
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Applying NIC/CNA Profile On A Collection . . . . . 58
Applying An iDRAC Profile On A Collection
. . . . . 60
Comparing And Updating Firmware Inventory For
Systems In A Collection
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Viewing The Hardware Inventory
. . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Verifying Communication With Lifecycle
Controller
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Modifying Credentials On Lifecycle Controllers . . . . 65
Modifying Credentials Of Lifecycle Controllers
On The Configuration Manager Database
. . . . . 65
Viewing And Exporting Lifecycle Controller Logs For
A Collection
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Platform Restore For A Collection
. . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Exporting The System Profiles In A Collection
. . . 67
Importing The System Profiles In A Collection
. . . 68
Configuring Part Replacement Properties For
A Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Comparing NIC Or CNA Profiles Against Systems In
A Collection
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
5 Using The Import Server Utility . . . . . . . 73
Importing Dell Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Prerequisites
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
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