Concept Guide

Contents
1 Introduction........................................................................................................... 5
Why use Lifecycle Controller?.............................................................................................................. 5
Benefits of using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller...............................................................................6
Key features........................................................................................................................................... 6
What’s new in this release?................................................................................................................... 7
Why use Lifecycle Controller Remote Services?..................................................................................7
Licensable features in Lifecycle Controller.......................................................................................... 8
What is the Web Service API?................................................................................................................8
Where can the Lifecycle Controller API be used from?...................................................................... 8
Who can use the API?........................................................................................................................... 9
How is one-to-many management achieved?..................................................................................10
Other information that you may need............................................................................................... 10
Social Media Reference..................................................................................................................11
Accessing documents from Dell support site.....................................................................................11
Contacting Dell....................................................................................................................................12
2 Remote Services Features................................................................................. 13
Deployment and configuration...........................................................................................................13
Server configuration profiles.........................................................................................................13
BIOS configuration........................................................................................................................ 13
iDRAC configuration......................................................................................................................13
RAID configuration........................................................................................................................ 14
NIC configuration.......................................................................................................................... 15
Operating system deployment......................................................................................................15
Near Field Communication (NFC) using the QuickSync feature.................................................16
Configuring advance security using hash password....................................................................16
Configuring USB management port............................................................................................. 17
Monitor.................................................................................................................................................17
Collecting System Inventory......................................................................................................... 17
Hardware inventory....................................................................................................................... 18
Lifecycle log...................................................................................................................................18
System event log........................................................................................................................... 19
Firmware inventory........................................................................................................................19
Event alerts.....................................................................................................................................19
SupportAssist Collection............................................................................................................... 19
Out-of-band server performance monitoring.............................................................................20
Maintain...............................................................................................................................................20
Server configuration profiles — export or import........................................................................20
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