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
– Permissions and firewall settings are provided for the iDRAC to communicate with the system that has the network share.
– With a minimum free space of 384 MB available
• Administrator privileges on the iDRAC of the target systems
Before you begin
Before you begin exporting the system profile for a single system or a collection:
• Make sure that operations such as firmware update, operating system deployment, and firmware configurations are not running.
• After you deploy the operating system using Lifecycle controller, the Original Equipment Manufacturer Drive (OEMDRV) is open
for 18 hours as the Lifecycle Controller does not have the status of the operating system installation. If you need to perform the
operations such as update, configuration, or restore after you deploy the operating system, remove the OEMDRV partition. To
remove the partition, reset iDRAC or cancel System Services.
For more information on resetting iDRAC or cancelling system services, see the Dell Lifecycle Controller Remote Services User’s
Guide available at Dell.com/support/home.
• If you have scheduled the backup, then do not schedule any other remote services jobs such as BIOS updates or RAID
configuration on the target systems.
• Make sure that the backup image file is not tampered with, either during export or after export.
Workflow for exporting server profile
About this task
The following steps outline the workflow sequence:
Steps
1. To export the system profile of a single target system, launch the System Viewer utility. To export the system profiles of a
collection of systems, launch the Config Utility. For more information, see System Viewer utility or Configuration utility.
2. Select the Platform Restore on the System Viewer utility or the Config Utility.
3. For a single system, see Exporting the system profile.
4. For a collection, see Exporting the system profiles in a collection.
Importing server profile from iDRAC vFlash card or network share
You can restore the backup of a system profile for a single system or a collection of systems from an iDRAC vFlash card or a
network share using DLCI for Configuration Manager.
Prerequisites
• Common prerequisites
• iDRAC vFlash card:
– Is installed as a license, enabled and has the SRVCNF partition. In Lifecycle Controller, during backup, a partition with a label
name SRVCNF is automatically created on the vFlash SD card to store the backup image file. If a partition with the label
name SRVCNF already exists, it is overwritten. For more information, see Lifecycle Controller documentation at Dell.com/
support/manuals.
– Has minimum free space of 384 MB available.
• If you are importing from an iDRAC vFlash card, make sure that the card is installed and has the backup image in the SRVCNF
partition. This image is from the same platform that you are importing.
• If you are importing from a network share, make sure that the network share where the backup image file is stored is still
accessible.
• If you replace the motherboard before performing import, make sure that the motherboard has the latest iDRAC and BIOS
installed.
NOTE: The service tag of the server is either blank or same as when the backup was taken.
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