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
Before you begin
Before you begin importing the backup file to a system or collection, ensure that:
• User Data is not present in the backup image file. If you overwrite the existing configuration with the backup image file, the user
data is not restored.
• During import, operations such as firmware update, operating system deployment, and firmware configurations are not running.
• After you deploy the operating system using Lifecycle controller, the OEMDRV is open for 18 hours. If you need to perform the
operations such as update, configuration, or import after operating system deployment, remove the OEMDRV partition. To
remove the partition, reset iDRAC or cancel System Services.
Workflow for importing server profile
About this task
The following steps outline the workflow sequence:
Steps
1. To import the system profile of a single target system, launch the System Viewer utility. To import 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 Importing the system profile.
4. For a collection, see Importing the system profiles in a collection.
Viewing and exporting Lifecycle Controller logs
You can view the Lifecycle Controller Logs for a single system or a collection and also export them in a .CSV format to a network
share folder. You can search and filter the Lifecycle Controller logs using Search field.
Prerequisites
• Common prerequisites
• Network Share:
– iDRAC can access the network share.
– iDRAC has the necessary permissions to write information to network share.
– Minimum free space of 384 MB is available.
• Configure the number of log files you want to view at a time in the DLCSystemview.exe.config or the
DLCConfigUtility.exe.config files. For more information, see Viewing Lifecycle Controller logs.
Before you begin
Before you begin viewing or exporting the Lifecycle Controller logs for a single system or a collection:
• If the Lifecycle Controller on the target systems is running other tasks such as firmware update, operating system deployment,
firmware configurations, exporting a system profile or importing a system profile, wait for the tasks to complete before you
retrieve the logs.
• Check the permissions on the network share and make sure the share is accessible from the Lifecycle Controller on the target
systems.
Workflow for viewing and exporting Lifecycle Controller logs
About this task
The following steps outline the workflow sequence:
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