Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration Version 3.3 for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager User's Guide
- Contents
- 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
- Comparing and updating the firmware inventory
- Creating, editing, and saving a RAID profile of a system
- 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
- Working with Fibre Channel profiles
- Selecting Fibre Channel storage area network in boot sequence
- 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
- Deploying operating systems
- Hardware configuration and OS deployment workflow
- Updating firmware during OS deployment
- Configuring hardware during OS deployment
- Configuring RAID
- Applying a NIC or CNA profile on a collection
- Applying FC HBA profiles and FC SAN boot attributes on a collection
- Applying an integrated Dell Remote Access Controller profile on a collection
- Exporting the system profiles before and after hardware configuration
- Comparing and updating firmware inventory for systems in a collection
- Viewing the hardware inventory
- Verifying Communication with Lifecycle Controller
- Viewing and exporting Lifecycle Controller logs for a collection
- Modifying credentials on Lifecycle Controllers
- 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
- Configuring FC HBA cards 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
- Comparing FC HBA profile against a target system
- Troubleshooting
- Configuring Dell provisioning web services on IIS
- Dell auto-discovery network setup specification
- Troubleshooting the viewing and exporting of Lifecycle Controller logs
- Deploying the operating system on Dell’s 13th generation of PowerEdge servers using WinPE 3.0
- 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
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.
4. In the Add Adapter dialog box, perform the following:
● Select the Adapter type from the drop-down list.
● Select the adapter location and specify the slot number.
● Click OK.
The adapter is now added to the Network Adapter Configuration screen.
5. If you want to remove any of the adapters from the profile, select the adapter and click Remove.
6. Select the adapter and click Configure to configure it. For more information on configuring the adapter, see Configuring
Adapters.
7. After you complete configuring the adapters, click Save as profile to save the NIC profile.
If you have not configured any of the adapters in the profile, the following message is displayed:
No Adapter is configured. Please configure before saving.
Click OK and configure some of the adapters before saving the profile.
If you have configured some of the adapters and not all of them, the following message is displayed:
You have not configured all adapters and settings. Are you sure you want to save the
profile?
Click OK to continue saving the profile, or click Cancel to configure all the adapters.
Scanning a collection
You can scan a collection and identify configured adapters and list the NIC or CNA profiles to edit them. To scan a collection:
1. On the System Viewer utility, click Network Adapter Configuration.
2. Select Scan collection to identify adapters and click Next.
NOTE:
Before the utility scans the collection, a warning is displayed that indicates that the process may take a long
time. If you click Cancel, the scan process is aborted and the Scan collection to identify adapters option is not
selected.
3. The utility scans the collection and a progress bar displays the progress of the task. Click Next after the task is complete.
4. The Network Adapter Configuration screen displays the adapters in the collection.
5. Select the adapters you want to configure and click Configure. For more information, see Configuring adapters on page
55.
6. If you want to remove any of the adapters from the profile, select the adapter and click Remove.
7. You can also click Add to add an adapter to the profile. For more information, see step 4 in Creating a NIC or CNA profile on
page 55.
8. Click Save as profile to save the modified NIC profile.
Configuring adapters
To configure the adapters:
1. Select the adapter on the Network Adapter Configuration screen and click Configure.
Using the System Viewer Utility
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