Owner's Manual

Introduction 9
1
Introduction
Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration (DLCI) for Microsoft System Center
Configuration Manager 2007 (Configuration Manager) and Microsoft System
Center 2012 Configuration Manager (Configuration Manager) enables the
administrators to leverage the remote enablement capabilities of Dell
Lifecycle Controller, available as part of the Integrated Dell Remote Access
Controller (iDRAC).
At a high level, the remote enablement capabilities consists of:
• Autodiscovery
• Hardware configuration
• Firmware comparison and updates
• Remote OS-Deployment for a collection of Dell systems
What’s New
This release of DLCI for Configuration Manager supports the following
features:
Table 1-1. New Features and Functionalities
New Feature Functionality
Configure and install
operating system on yx2x
(12th generation or 12G
servers)
You can configure 12G servers using DLCI through
Lifecycle Controller 2.0. All the features of previous
version of DLCI are supported for 12G servers.
NOTE: In the server name format yxxx ; y denotes
alphabets, for example M, R, or T; and x denotes numbers.
DLCI_UserGuide.book Page 9 Friday, October 12, 2012 7:16 PM