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5 Lifecycle Controller Integration Best Practices Guide
3.9.4 CQL Filter Example that Enumerates All iDRAC Attributes with a Particular GroupDisplayName and AttributeName 30
3.9.5 CQL Filter Example that Enumerates All BIOS Attributes Where the IsReadOnly flag is Set to TRUE ........................ 30
3.10 Ordering of iDRAC Attributes to Set or Apply (11G vs 12G) ......................................................................................... 30
3.11 How to Determine if Server is 11G or 12G ...................................................................................................................... 31
3.12 Valid Characters in Sharename, Username, Password ..................................................................................................... 31
3.13 Valid Characters for String or File Inputs ........................................................................................................................ 31
3.14 Obtaining Updated System Inventory .............................................................................................................................. 31
3.15 How to Determine if the System is Blade, Tower, or Rack .............................................................................................. 32
3.16 Getting the SystemID, Model, and More.......................................................................................................................... 32
3.17 Http, CIFS, NFS, tftp, ftp Formatting ............................................................................................................................... 35
3.18 Backup and Restore Passphrase Rules ............................................................................................................................. 35
4 Workflows ................................................................................................................................................................................... 36
4.1 RAID stacking: ResetConfig, CreateVD, Assign Hot-Spares .......................................................................................... 36
4.2 RAID Stacking with BIOS Attributes Using Setupjobqueue ........................................................................................... 37
4.3 Boot to Network ISO ........................................................................................................................................................ 38
4.4 Boot to ISO from vFlash .................................................................................................................................................. 39
4.5 Set Hard Disk Drive to First in Boot Order ...................................................................................................................... 40
4.6 Export (Backup) Image to vFlash ..................................................................................................................................... 41
4.7 Export (backup) Image to CIFS or NFS Share ................................................................................................................. 41
4.8 Automatic Backup (12th Generation and Later Version of Servers Only) ....................................................................... 42
4.9 Import (Restore) Image from vFlash ................................................................................................................................ 43
4.10 Import (Restore) Image from CIFS or NFS Share ............................................................................................................ 43
4.11 iDRAC Firmware DUP Update from CIFS or TFTP Share ............................................................................................. 44
4.12 BIOS Firmware DUP Update from CIFS or TFTP Share ............................................................................................... 45
4.13 USC Firmware DUP Update from CIFS or TFTP Share ................................................................................................. 46
4.14 Automatic Firmware Update (12th Generation and Later Version of Servers Only) ....................................................... 46
4.15 Update from Repository (12th Generation and Later Version of Servers Only) .............................................................. 47
4.16 Firmware Rollback (12th Generation and Later Version of Servers Only) ...................................................................... 48
4.17 Remote Diagnostics (12th Generation and later version of servers only) ........................................................................ 49
4.18 PXE Boot using embedded NICs (11G only) ................................................................................................................... 49
4.19 PXE Boot Using Embedded NICs (12th Generation and Later Version of Servers Only) ............................................... 51
4.20 Set NIC Attributes and iSCSI Boot Using Setupjobqueue (11G Only) ............................................................................ 53
4.21 iSCSI Boot Using NDC/Broadcom (12th Generation and Later Version of Servers Only) ............................................. 54