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
• SRIOV configuration — select to configure Single Root Input/Output Virtualization for the system. You can choose to
enable or disable this option.
Click OK to save the settings.
2. Click the iSCSI tab and specify the following parameters:
• CHAP authentication — enable or disable the challenge handshake authentication protocol (CHAP) for the system while
discovering an iSCSI target. If you enable this option, you must type the CHAP ID and CHAP Secret throughout the iSCSI
Initiator Parameters Configuration screen.
• CHAP mutual authentication — enable or disable a two way CHAP authentication between systems within a network
while discovering an iSCSI target.
• iSCSI via DHCP — enable or disable discovering the iSCSI target using DHCP.
• Windows Boot HBA Mode — disable this attribute when the host operating system is configured for software initiator
mode and to enable this for HBA mode. This option is available on NetXtreme adapters.
• Boot to Target — enable or disable this attribute. If you enable this option, the iSCSI boot host software attempts to boot
from the iSCSI target.
• DHCP Vendor ID — specify the DHCP Vendor ID in this field. If the Vendor Class ID field in the DHCP Offer packet
matches the value in this field, the iSCSI boot host software looks for the required iSCSI boot extensions. You do not need
to set this value if the iSCSI via DHCP option is disabled.
• LUN Busy Retry Count — specify the number of connection retries the iSCSI Boot initiator should attempt if the iSCSI
target LUN is busy.
3. Click OK to save the configurations.
Editing a NIC or CNA profile
About this task
To edit a NIC/CNA profile:
Steps
1. On the System Viewer utility, click Network Adapter Configuration.
2. Select Edit an Existing Profile.
3. Click Browse and navigate to the location where you have saved the NIC profiles.
4. Select the profile that is saved as a .XML file and click Next.
The Network Adapter Configuration screen displays the adapters that you have configured in the profile.
5. Select the adapter you want to edit and click Configure. For more information on configuring the adapter, see Configuring
adapters.
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.
8. Click Save as profile to save the modified NIC profile.
Configuring FC HBA cards for a system
This feature enables you to configure different attributes of FC HBA cards in a system and save them as a profile. The attributes
available for FC HBA configuration are static set of attributes. You can create FC HBA profiles for a system but the profiles can be
applied only to a collection.
Creating an FC HBA profile
About this task
To create an FC HBA profile, perform the following steps:
Steps
1. On the System Viewer utility, click FC HBA Configuration.
The options to create a new profile or edit an existing profile are displayed.
2. Select Create a New Profile and click Next.
The FC HBA Configuration screen is displayed.
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