Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration Version 3.3 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
- 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
- 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
Feature Functionality
System Viewer utility This feature enables you to configure individual systems by
using the remote enablement capabilities of DLCI. For more
information, see Using the System Viewer Utility.
Config Utility
This feature enables you to configure a collection of systems by
using the remote enablement capabilities of Lifecycle Controller.
For more information, see Using the Configuration Utility.
Launching the iDRAC Console This feature enables you to launch the iDRAC console from the
Task Viewer and from a system in the collection that contains
Dell’s 11th generation to 13th generation of PowerEdge systems.
For more information, see Launching the integrated Dell Remote
Access Controller console.
Support Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot
mode
This feature supports configuration of UEFI boot mode and
BIOS attribute settings. For more information, see Changing the
BIOS or UEFI boot sequence and hard disk drive sequence.
Task Viewer This feature enables you to track the status of the tasks
handled by DLCI for Configuration Manager. For more
information, see Task Viewer.
Support for viewing and configuring Fibre Channel (FC) host
bus adapters (HBA) for servers
Allows you to inventory and configure FC HBA cards.
Support for configuring Storage area network (SAN) boot
attributes
Allows you to configure SAN boot attributes.
Support for exporting the system profiles before and after
hardware configuration
Allows you to back up the system profiles for a collection of
systems by exporting the profile to an iDRAC vFlash card or a
network share.
Compare the applied FC HBA profiles against the systems in a
collection and generate comparison reports
Allows you to view the comparison report between an FC HBA
profile and a selected server.
Support for ESXi 5.5 Update 3 Allows you to deploy ESXi operating systems on a collection.
Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.2 versions Allows you to deploy RHEL operating systems on a collection.
Supported operating systems
For information on supported operating systems, see the Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration Version 3.3 for Microsoft System
Center Configuration Manager Installation Guide at Dell.com/support/home.
Supported Microsoft .NET versions
For information on supported Microsoft .NET versions, see the Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration Version 3.3 for Microsoft
System Center Configuration Manager Installation Guide at Dell.com/support/home.
Supported target systems
For the list of supported target systems and the operating systems (Windows only) that you can deploy on the target systems, see
the Unified Server Configurator/Unified Server Configurator-Lifecycle Controller Enabled- Supported Dell Systems and Operating
Systems matrix available at Dell.com/support/home. On the Manuals page, click Software and Security → Enterprise System
Management
→ OpenManage Software. Select the OpenManage relevant release version and click the appropriate link. Click Dell
System Software Support Matrix → Dell System Software Support Matrix → View → Supported Dell Systems and Operating
Systems. In the Support Matrix, view the target systems and operating systems that are supported by Unified Server Configurator
– Lifecycle Controller Enabled.
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