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
New feature Description
Support for Dell’s 13th generation of PowerEdge servers With this version, you can configure the 13th generations of Dell
PowerEdge servers through Integrated Dell Remote Access
Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller (LC)
Existing features and functionalities
Table 2. Features and functionalities
Feature Functionality
Configuration Manager distributed environment Support for Configuration Manager, when the configuration
manager is set up in a distributed environment.
Configure and deploy operating system on Dell’s 11th generation
and 12th generation of PowerEdge servers.
You can configure Dell’s 11th generation or 12th generation of
PowerEdge servers using DLCI through Lifecycle Controller. All
the features of previous version of DLCI are supported for 12th
generation or 11th generation PowerEdge servers.
A single installer to install and configure DLCI
You can use the single installer to install DLCI 3.3 in
environments (Configuration Manager 2012 SP2, Configuration
Manager 2012 R2 SP1, Configuration 2012 R2, Configuration
Manager 2012 SP1, or Configuration Manager 2012) based on
the version of Configuration Manager present in the system. If a
DLCI 3.2 is present, then the installer initiates an upgrade. The
installer deploys appropriate components based on the
Configuration Manager version.
Automatically configure Dell Provisioning Server You can automatically configure Dell Provisioning Server for
non-administrator users by selecting the Automatically
configure Dell Provisioning Server user permissions option
during installation.
Deploying customized images using Dell driver CAB files You can create and deploy customized images on Dell Enterprise
servers. For more information, see Adding Dell driver packages.
Platform Restore You can restore a profile for a system or a collection that
includes:
• Scheduling a backup, and exporting system profiles to an
external share/vFlash.
• Importing the saved system profiles from an external share/
vFlash.
• Configuring Part Replacement properties for a system or a
collection.
For more information, see Platform restore for a system and
Platform restore for a collection.
Viewing and exporting the Lifecycle Controller logs You can view the Lifecycle Controller logs of a system or a
collection in a readable format and save or export the logs to
a .CSV file. In addition, you can filter logs and view the number
of logs based on the search string. For more information, see
Viewing Lifecycle Controller logs and Viewing and exporting
Lifecycle Controller logs for a collection.
Configure network interface cards (NICs) and converged
network adapters (CNAs)
You can configure different attributes of specific NICs or CNAs
in the system and save them to a profile.
The saved profiles can later be applied to a collection as part of
the hardware configuration or operating system deployment, or
both.
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