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
Steps
1. In the BIOS Configuration screen, select Create a New Profile or Edit an Existing Profile, and click Browse to browse for the
profile.
2. Click the Boot or UEFI Sequence tab.
The current BIOS or UEFI boot sequence and hard disk drive sequence is displayed.
3. Use the Move Up and Move Down to change the BIOS or UEFI boot sequence or the hard disk drive sequence.
After you manually map SAN boot device in server, it is visible as hard disk drive sequence. To change the boot sequence for
SAN boot device, use Move Up to move up the SAN boot device in the hard disk drive sequence until it is the first boot device
in the hard disk drive sequence.
NOTE: If more than one SAN boot device is present in the hard disk drive sequence and you select a specified
device as the first boot device, the selection of the first boot device is based on the sequence in the Lifecycle
Controller.
4. Click OK to save the changes.
NOTE:
• For 13th generation of Dell PowerEdge servers, you can view the BIOS attributes and boot sequence of the currently
saved boot mode only.
• Click Reset to reset any changes made.
• The following task sequence works: Boot Mode with Boot Sequence followed by any of these configuration tasks,
NIC, or RAID; Optionally included with iDRAC configuration tasks.
• The following task sequence does not work: Boot Mode with Boot Sequence followed by only an iDRAC and only an
OSD configuration task does not work.
• The following task sequence partially works: If boot mode and boot sequence are applied together, then only boot
mode works.
Viewing and configuring RAID
About this task
This feature enables you to view and configure RAID on the server. To configure RAID:
Steps
1. On the System Viewer utility, click RAID Configuration.
The RAID Configuration screen displays the RAID information of your system, such as number of virtual disks, their controller
IDs, RAID levels, and physical disks.
2. Click Create RAID profile to create a new RAID configuration profile using Array Builder. For more information on using the
Array Builder, see
Using the Array Builder.
Configuring iDRAC profiles for a system
This features enables you to define the iDRAC configuration and save it and apply the profile to a collection as part of the workflow
while deploying an operating system.
You can create or edit iDRAC profiles for a system using the System Viewer utility.
Creating an integrated Dell Remote Access Controller profile
About this task
To create an iDRAC profile:
Steps
1. On the System Viewer utility, click iDRAC Configuration.
The iDRAC Configuration options are displayed.
2. Select Create a New Profile and click Next.
3. Click the Network Configuration tab.
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