Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration Version 3.1 For Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager User's Guide
- Introduction to Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration (DLCI) for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
- Use case scenarios
- Common prerequisites
- Editing and exporting the BIOS configuration profile of a system
- Creating, editing, and saving a RAID profile of a system
- Comparing and updating the firmware inventory
- Deploying operating system on collection
- Exporting server profile to iDRAC vFlash card or network share
- Importing server profile from iDRAC vFlash card or network share
- Viewing and exporting Lifecycle Controller logs
- Working With NIC or CNA Profiles
- Using Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration
- Licensing for DLCI
- Dell Deployment ToolKit
- Dell Driver Cab Files
- Configuring target systems
- Auto-discovery and handshake
- Applying Drivers from the task sequence
- Creating a task sequence
- Creating a Dell specific task sequence
- Creating a custom task sequence
- Editing a task sequence
- Configuring the task sequence steps to apply operating system image and driver package
- Applying the operating system image
- Adding Dell driver packages
- Deploying a task sequence
- Creating a task sequence media bootable ISO
- System Viewer utility
- Configuration utility
- Launching the integrated Dell Remote Access Controller console
- Task Viewer
- Additional tasks you can perform with Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration
- Configuring Security
- Validating a Dell factory-issued Client Certificate on the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller for auto-discovery
- Pre-authorizing systems for auto-discovery
- Changing the administrative credentials used by Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Configuration Manager
- Using the Graphical User Interface
- Using the Array Builder
- Defining rules with the Array Builder
- Creating a RAID Profile Using Array Builder
- About creating Array Builder
- Controllers
- Adding a Controller
- Editing a Controller
- Deleting a Controller
- Variable Conditions
- Adding a new variable condition
- Editing a variable condition
- Deleting a variable condition
- Arrays
- Adding a new array
- Editing an array
- Deleting an array
- Logical drives also known as virtual disks
- Adding a new logical drive
- Editing a logical drive
- Deleting a logical drive
- Disks (array disks)
- Adding a new disk
- Changing a disk
- Deleting a disk
- Importing a profile
- Using the Configuration Utility
- Creating a Lifecycle Controller boot media
- Configuring hardware and deploying the operating system
- Comparing and updating firmware inventory for systems in a collection
- Viewing the hardware inventory
- Verifying Communication With Lifecycle Controller
- Modifying credentials on Lifecycle Controllers
- Viewing and exporting Lifecycle Controller logs for a collection
- Platform restore for a collection
- Comparing NIC or CNA profiles against systems in a collection
- Using the Import Server Utility
- Using the System Viewer Utility
- Viewing and editing BIOS configuration
- Viewing and configuring RAID
- Configuring iDRAC profiles for a system
- Configuring NICs and CNAs for a system
- Comparing and updating firmware inventory
- Comparing hardware configuration profile
- Viewing Lifecycle Controller logs
- Viewing the hardware inventory for the system
- Platform restore for a system
- Troubleshooting
- Configuring Dell provisioning web services on IIS
- Dell auto-discovery network setup specification
- Troubleshooting the viewing and exporting of Lifecycle Controller logs
- Issues and resolutions
- ESXi or RHEL deployment on Windows systems moves to ESXi or RHEL collection, but not removed from Windows Managed Collection
- Related documentation and resources
The Edit User screen is displayed.
NOTE: You cannot edit the user account that DLCI uses to access the iDRAC of the system.
7. Specify the following details:
● General Details — Type the user name and password. You must specify the password when you create or edit a user
account.
● IPMI LAN user Privilege granted — Select the type of user from the drop-down list to grant the IPMI LAN user
privilege.
● Other Privilege — Select the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller group from the drop-down list and select the
privileges that you want to assign to that group.
For more information on the privileges, see the Dell Lifecycle Controller Version 1.6 User’s Guide and Dell Lifecycle
Controller 2 Version 1.4.0 available at dell.com/support/home.
8. Click OK to save the user account configuration and revert to the Users tab.
9. Click Save As Profile to save the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller configuration profile.
Editing an integrated Dell Remote Access Controller profile
To edit an iDRAC profile:
1. On the System Viewer utility, click iDRAC Configuration.
The iDRAC configuration options are displayed.
2. Select Edit an Existing Profile.
3. Click Browse and navigate to the location where you have saved the iDRAC configuration profile, and click Next.
4. In the Network Configuration tab, select the attribute you want to edit.
NOTE:
For more information on the various parameters that you can set for the above attributes, see the Dell Lifecycle
Controller Version 1.6 User’s Guide and Dell Dell Lifecycle Controller 2 Version 1.4.0 available at dell.com/support/
home.
5. Click the Users tab.
The grid retrieves the list of iDRAC users on the existing profile and displays them.
6. You can add a user account or edit an existing user account. For more information, see step 6 and step 7 in Creating an
Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller Profile.
7. Click Save As Profile to save the modified iDRAC configuration profile.
Configuring NICs and CNAs for a system
This feature enables you to configure the different attributes of specific network interface cards (NICs) or converged network
adapters (CNAs) in the system and save them to a profile. You can create NIC or CNA profiles for a system but the profiles can
be applied only to a collection. This feature enables NIC partitioning in the collection.
Each type of NIC is associated with a template. This template does not contain any specific instance information and is agnostic
of any system. For example, a DualPort-QuadPartition-NIC template enables you to configure the eight partitions of CNA to
various roles.
For information on NICs supported by Lifecycle Controller, see the Dell Lifecycle Controller Unified Server Configurator/Unified
Server Configurator-Lifecycle Controller Enabled User’s Guide available at dell.com/support/manuals.
Creating a NIC or CNA profile
To create a NIC/CNA profile:
1. On the System Viewer utility, click Network Adapter Configuration.
The options to create a new profile, edit an existing profile, or scan a collection to identify the adapters are displayed.
2. Select Create new profile and click Next.
The Network Adapter Configuration screen is displayed.
3. Click Add to add an adapter.
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Using the System Viewer Utility