Page 3 - Contents
Contents Notes, Cautions, and Warnings...................................................................................................2 1 Introduction..................................................................................................................................5 Benefits of usi...
Page 5 - Introduction; Benefits of using iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller
1 Introduction The Dell Lifecycle Controller provides advanced embedded systems management. It includes a 1GB-managed and persistent storage that embeds systems management features in addition to the iDRAC features.The Dell Lifecycle Controller Remote Services further enables remote systems manageme...
Page 8 - Contacting Dell
Lifecycle controller also supports local one-to-one system management tasks through a graphical user interface (GUI) using the server’s KVM or the Virtual Console in iDRAC for operating system installation, updates, configuration, and for running diagnostics, on single and local servers. This elimin...
Page 9 - Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services Features; Deployment and Configuration
2 Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services Features Using Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services, you can perform the following operations: • Deploy and Configuration • Monitor • Maintain • Jobs Deployment and Configuration Using various Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services' capabilities, you can perform ...
Page 11 - Monitor
• Get the list of MAC Addresses of all the NICs present on the server. System Configuration XML System configuration XML file contains the component configuration information, and this file is used to apply the configuration for BIOS, iDRAC, RAID, and NIC by importing the file into a target system. ...
Page 12 - Maintain
• Logs of all the remote operations • Firmware update history based on device, version, and date. • BIOS and NIC configuration changes. • RAID configuration changes. • Error message IDs. For more information, see Dell Event Message Reference Guide at dell.com/support/ manuals. System Event Log The L...
Page 13 - Job Management
The firmware update operations or firmware rollback operations are performed in the following order: 1. Initiate and download the image.2. Create a reboot job.3. Schedule the update job.4. Monitor the job until finished. Part Replacement The Part Replacement feature is used to automatically update a...
Page 15 - Getting Started with API Collateral and Links; Profiles
3 Getting Started with API Collateral and Links Getting started with any feature of Lifecycle Controller begins at the Dell Tech Center Lifecycle Controller home page — delltechcenter.com/LC.The home page contains various sections that reference URLs, and these referenced URLs are direct links to th...
Page 17 - MOF WSDL and XSD API Definitions
Profile Name Description Role Based Authorization The DCIM Role Based Authorization Profile describes the properties and interfaces for executing system management tasks related to the authorization. Sensors The DCIM Sensors Profile describes the properties and interfaces for executing system manage...
Page 18 - Web Services Interface Guide; Attribute Registry XML
XML Schema Description An XML schema (also known as XSD) is a description of a type of XML document, typically expressed in terms of constraints on the structure and content of documents of that type, above and beyond the basic syntactical constraints imposed by XML itself. These constraints are gen...
Page 20 - White Papers
Feature Base Management with IPMI iDRAC7 Express iDRAC7 Express for Blades iDRAC7 Enterprise Diagnostics Yes Yes Yes Yes Server Profile Export and Import - - - Yes Part Replacement - - - Yes Local Updates Yes Yes Yes Yes Driver Packs Yes Yes Yes Yes Remote Services (through WSMAN) Yes Yes Yes Yes Wh...
Page 21 - Integrating the Lifecycle Controller API; API Clients
4 Integrating the Lifecycle Controller API This section outlines the resources required to integrate the Lifecycle Controller API into an application: • API Clients – Lists the API clients that are available to support WinRM or WSMAN. The API clients enable a you to create an application in a variet...
Page 23 - Lifecycle Controller Technical Learning Series
5 Social Media Reference To obtain the most up-to-date information, go to the Dell Tech Center and search for the required information. Lifecycle Controller Technical Learning Series Dell’s 12th generation PowerEdge servers (content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/corp-comm/power-edge-servers) are shipped wit...
Page 25 - Terms and Definitions
6 Terms and Definitions The following table lists the terms used in this document and their definitions. Term Definition LC Lifecycle Controller Enumerate Refers to WSMAN ENUMERATE operation as described in Section 8.2 of DSP0226_V1.1 and Section 9.1 of DSP0227_V1.0 Get Refers to WSMAN GET operation...