Dell Lifecycle Controller Remote Services v2.30.30.
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Contents 1 Introduction........................................................................................................... 5 Why use Lifecycle Controller?.............................................................................................................. 5 Benefits of using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller...............................................................................6 Key features...............................................................................................
Firmware update............................................................................................................................ 21 Part replacement........................................................................................................................... 22 Server profile — export or import................................................................................................. 22 Server license — import.....................................................................
Introduction 1 Dell Lifecycle Controller provides advanced embedded systems management to perform systems management tasks such as deploy, configure, update, maintain, and diagnose. It is delivered as part of integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) out-of-band solution and embedded Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) applications in the latest Dell servers.
Operating System device drivers directly on the server. This eliminates the media-based system management tools and utilities traditionally needed for systems management. Benefits of using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller The benefits include: • Increased Uptime — Early notification of potential or actual failures that help prevent a server failure or reduce recovery time after a failure.
• Delete server-related information • View the managed system using Physical Computer System View • Manage the web server certificate • Configure the USB management port • View SupportAssist Collection to resolve business-critical issues • Replace motherboard using Import Server Profile feature What’s new in this release? The new features supported in this release are: • Firmware updates for out-of-band SATA hard drives • Firmware update support for PERC 9.
Licensable features in Lifecycle Controller The Web Services-Management (WS-MAN) License and Privilege Specification encompasses all the license and privilege information required to utilize the WS-MAN API provided by the integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller. It was delivered as part of the iDRAC (Express and Enterprise licenses, and vFlash SD card feature) starting with the 11th generation of Dell PowerEdge servers.
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 eliminates the need for multiple option ROMs for hardware configuration. For more information, see Lifecycle Controller User’s Guide, available at delltechcenter.com/lc.
How is one-to-many management achieved? A management station sends WS-MAN commands over a network and the WS-MAN commands pass securely through the network from outside the firewall and maintain security. Other information that you may need In addition to this guide, you can refer the following guides available at dell.com/support/home or dell.com/idracmanuals: • The Lifecycle Controller Online Help provides information about the fields available on the GUI and the descriptions for the same.
• The Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) 9 User's Guide provides specification and configurationrelated information about the PERC 9 controllers. • The Glossary provides information about the terms used in this document. • The Dell OpenManage Server Update Utility User's Guide provides information about using the DVDbased application for identifying and applying updates to the system.
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Remote Services Features 2 Using Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services, you can perform the following operations: • Deploy and Configure • Monitor • Maintain • Create and schedule jobs Deployment and configuration Using various Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services' capabilities, you can perform different configurations on a system throughout its lifecycle. You can perform operations such as BIOS, iDRAC, RAID, FC-HBA, and NIC configurations, and operating system deployment on the system.
controller properties and attributes are divided into views to provide a simple methodology for the clients to query the iDRAC views and set the iDRAC attributes. You can perform the following operations: • Retrieve current iDRAC configuration and inventory • Get and set any configurable iDRAC attribute • Manage iDRAC user accounts RAID configuration The RAID configuration feature is used to manage the properties and capabilities of the RAID storage.
NOTE: On Dell’s 13th generation PowerEdge server, you can now perform all RAID configuration jobs in real-time without rebooting the host. For more information on RAID configuration, see the SimpleRaid profile document available at en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/1906.dcim-library-profile.aspx. Also, see the iDRAC User’s Guide available at dell.com/esmmanuals.
Near Field Communication (NFC) using the QuickSync feature Using the QuickSync feature, you can: • View basic server information such as Service Tag, MAC address, NIC data, firmware versions, operating system, and so on. • View log and monitoring information of a server. • Configure network parameters of a server. After viewing or editing the information, you can troubleshoot or configure using a mobile device.
Configuring USB management port On the 13th generation of PowerEdge servers monitored by iDRAC, you can perform the following functions on a USB port and USB drive: • Manage the status of the server’s USB management port. If the status is disabled, iDRAC does not process a USB device or host connected to the managed USB port. • Configure the USB Management Port Mode to determine whether the USB port is used by iDRAC or the operating system.
Easy Restore and Part Replacement may not contain the latest information when CSIOR is disabled. In-band tools such as OMSA and DTK cannot configure BIOS when CSIOR is disabled. Also, system information reported from out-of-band interfaces such as WS-MAN and RACADM may not have correct information. Hardware inventory The hardware inventory information is cached on the persistent storage of Lifecycle Controller and is available to iDRAC and UEFI applications.
• User login to any iDRAC interface For more information about Event and Error Messages, see the Dell Event Message Reference Guide available at dell.com/support/home. System event log The Lifecycle Log contains events related to system, storage devices, network devices, firmware updates, configuration changes, license messages, and so on. However, the system events are also available as a separate log called the System Event Log (SEL).
• vFlash SD Card partition information • TTY logs for PERC controllers and NVMe PCIe SSD drives NOTE: The Tech Support Report feature is renamed as SupportAssist Collection in the iDRAC web interface. This feature is still referred as Embedded Tech Support Report in the RACADM and WSMAN interfaces. Out-of-band server performance monitoring Using this feature, you can monitor the performance index of CPU, memory, and I/O.
If the EmbSata BIOS attribute on the import system is not set to RAIDMode, then the first import must contain the following: RaidMode The second server import is to apply the configuration on the PERC controller: False Ignore PAGE 22NOTE: Immediate updates such as diagnostics, driver pack, and iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller are not required to be scheduled. These update processes move from downloading state to completed state. Updating iDRAC resets the iDRAC when the job is marked completed. For more information about automatic update, see Automatic Updates in Dell PowerEdge 12G Servers white paper available at www.delltechcenter.com/systemsmanagement.
For more information about Provisioning Server, see the Lifecycle Controller Management profile document available at www.delltechcenter.com/systemsmanagement. Retire or repurpose the server By using the Retire or Repurpose feature, you can delete server-related data such as system configuration, logs, PERC NV cache (if available), and so on. However, an iDRAC license cannot be deleted by using this feature.
• Invoke certain method based on implemented features. For more information about viewing the managed computer system using PCSV, see the Physical Computer System View Profile document available at www.delltechcenter.com/systemsmanagement. Job management Lifecycle Controller allows you to create, schedule, track, and manage system management tasks that are referred to as jobs. A single job or array of jobs can be run immediately or scheduled to run later.
System status This feature is used to remotely obtain the overall Remote Services API status that includes real-time CEM status, the host system status, and the remote service status. The overall status is displayed in the Status output parameter. After the job is complete in Automated Task Application (previously SSM), the job status is immediately updated in the job store. The job is immediately moved to the Completed state and synchronization starts.
Getting started with API collateral and links 3 Getting started with any feature of Lifecycle Controller begins at the Dell TechCenter Lifecycle Controller home page — delltechcenter.com/LC. The home page contains various sections that reference URLs, and these referenced URLs are direct links to the corresponding sections. You can follow these steps to get started using the Lifecycle Controller API: 1. Identify the feature or the required management operation. 2.
Profile Name Description BIOS and Boot Management The BIOS and Boot Management Profile extends the management capabilities of referencing profiles by adding the capability to represent the configuration of the system BIOS setup and to manage the boot of the system. CPU The DCIM CPU Profile describes the properties and interfaces for running system management tasks related to the management of processors within a system.
Profile Name Description application without any restart. It also gives the information about the failure. The successful invocation of this method returns a job. The methods DCIM_SoftwareInstallationService: SetUpdateSchedule(), DCIM_SoftwareInstallationService: GetUpdateSchedule(), and DCIM_SoftwareInstallationService: ClearUpdateSchedule() allow for automatic firmware updates at scheduled intervals.
Profile Name Description Profile Registration The DCIM Profile Registration Profile defines the classes used to describe the DCIM and DMTF profile registration and the version information of the profiles advertised as implemented for a managed system and components of the system. RAID The RAID Profile extends the management capabilities of referencing profiles by adding the capability to represent the configuration of RAID storage.
Profile Name Description Virtual Address Management is supported by setting attributes of VirtMacAddr, VirtIscsiMacAddr, VirtFIPMacAddr, VirtWWN, VirtWWPN, and VirtualizationMode. Software Inventory The Dell Software Inventory Profile extends the management capabilities of referencing profiles by adding the capability to represent the software inventory of system.
NOTE: To access the MOFs, on the Dell TechCenter (delltechcenter.com/LC) page, under Reference Specifications, click MOFs. Web service description language The Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is an XML-based language that is used for describing the functionality offered by a web service. A WSDL description of a web service (also referred to as a WSDL file) provides a machine-readable description of how the service can be called, what parameters it expects, and what data structures it returns.
• The corresponding PYTHON sample scripts are separately provided. After invoking these scripts, the output log can be used to provide approximate timing on a particular system configuration, as well as raw WinRM or Open-WSMAN input and output. NOTE: The scripts are located here — http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/ white_papers/20066173.aspx Attribute registry XML The attribute registry lists all the attributes and properties for the particular component in XML format.
• Express for blades • Enterprise Table 3.
Integrating the Lifecycle Controller API 4 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 variety of programming languages. • Best Practices Guide— Provides information about the common work flows, where in ready-to-use Python scripts are provided for all the common work flows.
• Other scripting examples — en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/ 1981.scripting-the-dell-lifecycle-controller.aspx Applications using Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services The following applications use Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services • Dell Compellent | Fluid Data Network Storage Solution — compellent.com • Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration v2.0 for System Center Configuration Manager — dell.
Social media reference 5 To obtain the most up-to-date information, go to the Dell TechCenter and search for the required information. Table 4. Product Information Product Name and topic Link on Dell TechCenter Lifecycle Controller en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/ 1979.lifecycle-controller.aspx integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/ 3204.dell-remote-access-controller-drac-idrac.
Terms and definitions 6 The following table lists the terms used in this document and their definitions. Table 5. Terms and definitions Term Definition LC Lifecycle Controller Enumerate Refers to WS-MAN ENUMERATE operation as described in Section 8.2 of DSP0226_V1.1 and Section 9.1 of DSP0227_V1.0 Get Refers to WS-MAN GET operation as defined in Section 7.3 of DSP00226_V1.1 and Section 7.1 of DSP0227_V1.
