Concept Guide

1 Introduction................................................................................................................................. 5
Advantages of using Lifecycle Controller...........................................................................................................................5
Benefits of using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller............................................................................................................5
Key features........................................................................................................................................................................... 6
New in this release................................................................................................................................................................ 6
Advantages of using Lifecycle Controller Remote Services............................................................................................ 6
Licensable features in Lifecycle Controller......................................................................................................................... 7
About iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish and Web Service APIs..................................................................................... 7
About Lifecycle Controller API............................................................................................................................................. 7
About one-to-many management achieved.......................................................................................................................8
Other information that you may need.................................................................................................................................8
Social Media Reference.................................................................................................................................................. 9
Accessing documents from the Dell EMC support site....................................................................................................9
Contacting Dell..................................................................................................................................................................... 10
2 Remote Services Features............................................................................................................11
Deployment and configuration............................................................................................................................................ 11
Server configuration profiles..........................................................................................................................................11
BIOS configuration..........................................................................................................................................................11
iDRAC configuration....................................................................................................................................................... 11
RAID configuration......................................................................................................................................................... 12
NIC configuration........................................................................................................................................................... 13
Operating system deployment......................................................................................................................................13
Near Field Communication using the QuickSync feature..........................................................................................13
Configuring advanced security using hash password................................................................................................14
Configuring USB management port.............................................................................................................................14
Monitor.................................................................................................................................................................................. 14
Collecting system inventory..........................................................................................................................................14
Hardware inventory....................................................................................................................................................... 15
Lifecycle log.................................................................................................................................................................... 15
System event log............................................................................................................................................................15
Firmware inventory........................................................................................................................................................ 16
Event alerts..................................................................................................................................................................... 16
SupportAssist Collection............................................................................................................................................... 16
Out-of-band server performance monitoring.............................................................................................................16
Maintain.................................................................................................................................................................................16
Server configuration profiles—export or import........................................................................................................17
Firmware update.............................................................................................................................................................18
Part replacement............................................................................................................................................................18
Server profile—export or import..................................................................................................................................18
Server license — import................................................................................................................................................18
Provisioning Server........................................................................................................................................................ 18
Retire or repurpose the server..................................................................................................................................... 19
Managing the web server certificate....................................................................................................................19
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