Concept Guide

• 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 WS-

MAN interfaces.

Out-of-band server performance monitoring

Using this feature, you can monitor the performance index of CPU, memory, and I/O. Intel ME supports

Compute Usage Per Second (CUPS) functionality for monitoring the performance. The monitoring is

independent of the OS and does not use CPU resources. The Intel ME displays a platform CUPS sensor

that provides the computation, memory and I/O resource utilization value in the form of a platform CUPS

Index. iDRAC monitors this CUPS index for overall system utilization and also the instant value of CPU,

Memory, and I/O utilization index.

NOTE: To use this feature, iDRAC enterprise license is required.

For more information about monitoring the out-of-band performance, see the Dell Base Metrics Profile

and Dell Sensors Profile document available at www.delltechcenter.com/systemsmanagement.

Maintain

Using various Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services capabilities, you can maintain the health of a system

throughout its lifecycle. You can use features such as remote firmware management, part replacement,

server profile import or export, and provisioning server to maintain a system using Lifecycle Controller-

Remote Services.

Server configuration profiles — export or import

Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services can export or import a Server Configuration Profiles file. The export

operation collects the configuration information for BIOS, iDRAC, RAID, NIC, FC-HBA, System, and

Lifecycle Controller and stores it in a single file that is copied to a network share. The Import operation

imports the file from a network share, and applies the previously saved or updated configurations

contained in the file to a system. For more information, see Server Cloning with Server Configuration

Profiles and Creating and Managing Server Configuration Profiles documents available at

www.delltechcenter.com/systemsmanagement.

Exceptions while importing server profile

On certain Dell devices, successful application of a server configuration profile requires two imports. The

first import of the profile enables hidden devices that are then configured with a second import.

Two imports are required while performing following actions:

• Enabling RAID mode on storage controllers — PERC S110 and PERC S130 require two imports – one

to set the embedded SATA controller to RAID mode and the second to configure the RAID controller

for operations such as creating a virtual disk.

Example: