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168 Lifecycle Controller Integration Best Practices Guide
 Once all jobs are successfully scheduled, the target machine power state can be polled as described in section
5.2.1
 The total time taken for reboot depends on the RebootJobType specified.
- For a machine powered down, it shouldn’t take more than 30 seconds to power up. o For a running
machine, timeout depends on the RebootJobType:
- = PowerCycle – 30 seconds
- = Graceful Reboot without forced shutdown – 5 minutes
- = Graceful reboot with forced shutdown – 5 minutes
33.4.3 POST
Memory Check
 Get the value of the BIOSEnumeration attribute MemTest, obtained during inventory as described in section
5.3.3.
 If MemTest = Enabled, on power on, the BIOS memory test is executed.
 If memory test is executed, the total timeout for POST should include 10 seconds per GB of RAM to check the
total RAM installed on the target system, as obtained from enumeration described in section 33.3.
Controller Initialization
 Get the total number of NIC and RAID controllers on the target system, obtained from enumerations described in
sections 33.3.5 and 33.3.6.
 The total timeout for POST should include 10 seconds to initialize each NIC controller installed on the target
system.
 The total timeout for POST should include 1 minute to initialize each RAID controller installed on the target
system.
33.4.4 SSM
33.4.4.1 UEFI Initialization
 Before running SSM, the UEFI environment needs to load into memory. This includes various BIOS, NIC,
RAID and LC drivers that are loaded and started. This also includes initialization time for various NIC device
drivers which populate the HII database with their attribute configuration for consumption by LC.
 The total timeout for SSM should include 2 minutes to load all BIOS and LC components.
 The total timeout for SSM should include 30 seconds to load and initialize each NIC driver installed on the target
system.
33.4.4.2 Job Execution
 Once SSM starts to execute a job, JobStatus will transition from Scheduled to Running to Completed, Completed
with Errors, or Failed.
 The total timeout for SSM should include 5-10 minutes per job executed depending on the type of job.
 Error to user if JobStatus != Completed or timeout occurs.
 If JobStatus = Completed with Errors, attributes that failed to set can be obtained from the LCL as described in
section 12.13 of the WSIG for Windows.