Concept Guide

For additional information on CMC, see www.dell.com/esmmanuals or www.delltechcenter.com/CMC.

iDRAC Service Module

This module complements iDRAC with monitoring and conguration information from the operating system. iSM has limited interface of its

own on OS. You can enable/disable features on iSM by the iDRAC interfaces to control the CPU and memory consumed on the server’s

operating system.

The iDRAC Service Module provides the following features:

• View operating system (OS) information.

• Replicate Lifecycle Controller logs to operating system logs.

• Perform automatic system recovery options.

• Populate Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) information.

• Integrate with SupportAssist Collection.

• Enable Prepare to Remove option on a NVMe class PCIe SSD.

• Access iDRAC interfaces using host IP.

• Use Remote iDRAC hard reset for 13th generation of PowerEdge servers.

• Access iDRAC MIB compatible SNMP traps from the host operating system.

For more information, see the iDRAC User’s Guide available at dell.com/idracmanuals.

Dell Remote Access Controller Administration (RACADM) CLI

The RACADM command-line utility provides a scriptable interface to perform inventory, conguration, update, and health status check of

PowerEdge servers. RACADM operates in multiple modes:

• Local — supports running RACADM commands from the managed server’s operating system.

• SSH or Telnet — known as Firmware RACADM, is accessible by logging in to iDRAC using SSH or Telnet

• Remote — supports running RACADM commands from a remote management station such as a laptop or desktop.

RACADM is supported by the iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller and by the Chassis Management Controller of the M1000e, VRTX and FX2

modular systems. Local and Remote RACADM is supported on Windows Server, Windows clients, and on Red Hat, SuSe and Ubuntu Linux.

For complete information, see the RACADM Command Line Reference Guide for iDRAC and CMC available at dell.com/support/manuals.

iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller Embedded Management APIs

iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller provides a range of standards-based applications programming interfaces (APIs) that enable scalable,

automated management of PowerEdge servers. Standard systems management APIs have been developed by organizations such as the

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and are widely used by

commercial systems management products and by custom programs and scripts developed by IT sta to automate management functions

such as discovery, inventory, health status checking, conguration, update, and power management. The APIs supported by iDRAC with

Lifecycle Controller include:

• Redsh: In 2015, the DMTF Scalable Platforms Management Forum published Redsh, an open industry-standard specication and

schema designed to meet the needs of IT administrators for simple, modern, and secure management of scalable platform hardware.

Dell is a key contributor to the Redsh standard, acting as co-chair of the SPMF, promoting the benets of Redsh, and working to

deliver those benets within Dell industry-leading systems management solutions. Redsh is a next generation management standard

using a data model representation inside a hypermedia RESTful interface. The data model is dened in terms of a standard, machine-

readable schema, with the payload of the messages expressed in JSON and the protocol using OData v4.

Systems Management Product Overview