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LC1_3.book Page 2 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Notes and Cautions NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your computer. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to hardware or loss of data if instructions are not followed. __________________ Information in this document is subject to change without notice. © 2009 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction of these material in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Dell Inc.
LC1_3.book Page 5 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Contents 1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Remote Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unified Server Configurator (USC) 2 . . . . . . . . . 9 9 10 Unified Server Configurator and Unified Server Configurator - Lifecycle Controller Enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 What’s new in USC/USC-LCE 1.3 USC-LCE . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
LC1_3.book Page 6 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Unified Server Configurator - Lifecycle Controller Enabled Unique Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . Updating USC - LCE . . . . 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Updating the Platform using the Platform Update Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 . . . 34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Rolling Back to Previous BIOS and Firmware Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
LC1_3.book Page 7 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Remotely Reinitiating Auto-Discovery in New Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Using Custom Certificates Remote Firmware Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Instant Firmware Inventory . Supported Devices Remote Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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LC1_3.book Page 9 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM 1 Overview In order to provide new and robust server management capabilities, the Unified Server Configurator/Unified Server Configurator - Lifecycle Controller Enabled (USC/USC-LCE) software product has been enhanced to include additional remote services functionality. Since this addition allows for a comprehensive approach to server management, the entire set of software components is now called Dell™ Lifecycle Controller.
LC1_3.book Page 10 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM simplifies the tasks involved in operating system and driver installation. For more information on the features supported by the remote services provisioning solution, see "Remote Service Features." Unified Server Configurator (USC) Unified Server Configurator (USC): Base-level product that uses BMC and provides operating system deployment, hardware diagnostics, and USC settings capabilities.
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LC1_3.book Page 13 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM 2 Unified Server Configurator and Unified Server Configurator - Lifecycle Controller Enabled Unified Server Configurator (USC) and Unified Server Configurator-Lifecycle Controller Enabled (USC-LCE) reside on an embedded flash memory card and are embedded configuration utilities that enable systems and storage management tasks from an embedded environment throughout your system’s life cycle.
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LC1_3.book Page 15 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM If the message System Services disabled still displays, then the product may have been manually disabled. See "Disabling USC or USCLCE" for information on how to enable USC or USC - LCE. • System Services update required — If the message System Services update required appears when you boot your system, the embedded device that stores the product may contain corrupted data.
LC1_3.book Page 16 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • USC Settings — Enables you to specify the language, keyboard layout, and network settings to be used with USC or USC-LCE. See "Using USC Settings Wizard" for more information. Along with the above mentioned wizards, USC and USC-LCE provide the following options: • Home — Enables you to navigate back to Home screen. • About — Enables you to view the version information of USC-LCE and UEFI.
LC1_3.book Page 17 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • USC Settings — You do not need to run this wizard again unless you want to change the language, keyboard, or network settings. • Platform Update — Download and apply any updates. Ensure that you run the Platform Update wizard regularly so that your system is up to date. • Hardware Configuration — Run this wizard to configure your system devices. • OS Deployment — Run this wizard to install operating system.
LC1_3.book Page 18 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM CAUTION: This action cancels all tasks USC or USC - LCE is in the process of executing. Dell strongly recommends that you cancel the request to enter System Services only when absolutely necessary. 1 Press within 5 seconds when prompted during system start-up. The iDRAC6 Configuration Utility page displays. 2 Navigate to System Services. 3 Select Cancel System Services. Save your changes and exit the iDRAC6 Configuration Utility page.
LC1_3.book Page 19 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • No Configuration - Select if you do not want to configure your NIC. • DHCP - Select to obtain an IP address from a DHCP server. • Static IP - Select to use a static IP address. Specify the following IP address properties. If you do not have this information, see your network administrator. – IP Address – Subnet Mask – Default Gateway – DNS Address c Click Finish. If USC settings are not configured correctly, an error message is displayed.
LC1_3.book Page 20 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Although USC - LCE comes with embedded drivers that are factory installed, there may be more current drivers available. You should run the Platform Update wizard to ensure that you have the most current drivers before installing the operating system. Before installing the operating system, the OS Deployment wizard detects if a boot device is available.
LC1_3.book Page 21 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM If you use a firewall, you should configure it to allow outgoing FTP traffic on port 21. The firewall must also be configured to accept incoming FTP response traffic. • To download drivers from the online repository (Dell FTP server), you must enter ftp.dell.com in the Address field.
LC1_3.book Page 22 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM 3 Click Next. If your system has a RAID controller, continue with "Optional RAID Configuration." If your system does not have a RAID controller, continue with "Select an Operating System." Optional RAID Configuration If your system has a RAID controller, you have the option of launching the RAID Configuration wizard and configuring a virtual disk as the boot device. To configure RAID: • Select Configure RAID Now and click Next.
LC1_3.book Page 23 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM 2 USC or USC - LCE extracts the drivers required by the operating system you selected. The drivers are extracted to an internal USB drive named OEMDRV. 3 After the drivers are extracted, USC or USC - LCE prompts you to insert the operating system installation media. Important • For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x, the drivers are extracted to OEMDRV under /oemdrv/*.rpm.
LC1_3.book Page 24 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Insert the Operating System Media Insert the operating system installation media when prompted and click Next. USC supports internal SATA optical drives and USB optical drives and USC - LCE supports internal SATA optical drives, USB optical drives, and virtual media devices. If the installation media is corrupt or not readable, then USC and USC-LCE may be unable to detect the presence of a supported optical drive.
LC1_3.book Page 25 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • In the event that the operating system installation is interrupted and the system reboots before installation completes, you may be prompted to press a key in order to boot from the operating system installation media. • You can cancel the operating system installation by pressing the key. Pressing the key at any point during the installation process or while rebooting causes any drivers provided by the OS Deployment wizard to be removed.
LC1_3.book Page 26 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM rpm -Uvh *.rpm Assign a Windows-Bootable System Partition to the C: Drive After you have completed USC or USC - LCE portion of Windows Server 2003 installation, your server will reboot and begin the text-mode portion of the installation. During this phase, you may need to perform the following steps to ensure Windows installs to your C: drive.
LC1_3.book Page 27 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM 4 Insert the driver update disk (DUD) when prompted, and specify the location of the USB drive and press . 5 Complete the installation as directed by the installation program. Hardware Diagnostics Utilizing the Hardware Diagnostics utility, it is recommended that you run diagnostics as part of a regular maintenance regimen to validate that the system and attached hardware are functioning properly.
LC1_3.book Page 28 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Use the Platform Update wizard to update the hardware diagnostics utility. See "Updating the Platform using the Platform Update Wizard" for more information. Alternatively, you can also download the required Dell Update Package (DUP) from Dell Support site at support.dell.com and run the DUP as an executable in the installed operating system.
LC1_3.book Page 29 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM 8 While the system reboots, press the key again to enter USC - LCE. If a warning message appears on the initial USC - LCE screen, you must repeat "step 7" until the server is in a fully-recovered state. NOTE: Updates that are required for a complete system recovery are pre-selected by USC - LCE. Dell highly recommends running all selected updates on your system.
LC1_3.book Page 30 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Transferring an iDRAC6 Express Card If the iDRAC6 Express card is transferred from one system to another: • The rollback feature is unavailable on the new system. See "Rolling Back to Previous BIOS and Firmware Versions" for more information. • All pending USC-LCE tasks that are in the process of execution are deleted on the new system. • Run Platform Update wizard to download the appropriate driver pack for the new system.
LC1_3.book Page 31 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Updating the Platform using the Platform Update Wizard Use the Platform Update wizard to view the current versions of the installed applications and firmware information. You can use the Platform Update Wizard to display a list of available updates for your system. After you select the updates you want to apply, USC - LCE downloads and applies the updates.
LC1_3.book Page 32 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Select Download Method You can download updates from Dell’s FTP server at ftp.dell.com using the Platform Update wizard or from a local FTP server or from a local USB device or Dell Server Updates DVD. To enable the text boxes and drop-down menus under local FTP server or Dell FTP Server and USB Device, select the corresponding FTP Server or Local Drive check box. 1 Select either FTP Server or Local Drive.
LC1_3.book Page 33 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • Proxy Password — The password required for authentication on the proxy server. Local Drive Select Local Drive if you are accessing the updates from a local USB device or Dell Server Updates DVD. Select the appropriate volume label from the Local Drive drop-down menu. See "Configuring a Local USB Device" for more information. 2 Click Next. Select and Apply Updates The Select Updates screen displays a list of available updates.
LC1_3.book Page 34 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Important • USC-LCE does not support the update or rollback of PERC 5/E Adapter for external storage, SAS 5i/R Adapter for tape, PERC S100 and PERC S300 Adapters, and Intel™ NIC Adapters. • A NIC wrapper.efi error may be displayed if you try updating the NIC using platform update in USC without the latest versions of iDRAC and BIOS. Upgrade to the latest BIOS and iDRAC versions to ensure this error does not occur.
LC1_3.book Page 35 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Select and Apply Rollbacks The Platform Rollback screen displays a list of available rollback components. 1 Select the check box of each rollback image that you want to apply to the system. To compare the version of the rollback image with the version currently installed on the system, compare the versions in the Current and Previous fields. • Component — Displays the available updates; select the check box of each update you want to apply.
LC1_3.book Page 36 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Hardware Configuration USC - LCE provides two different methods for configuring your hardware, both of which are available from the main Hardware Configuration screen: • Configuration Wizards guide you through setting up system devices. The Configuration Wizards include: Physical Security Configuration, System Date/Time Configuration, iDRAC Configuration, and RAID Configuration.
LC1_3.book Page 37 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM 2 Select Configure RAID Now. The system will display all the storage controllers available for configuration, including the series 6 and 7 controllers. 3 Select a storage controller. The RAID Configuration options are displayed. 4 Complete RAID settings and click Finish. The RAID configuration is applied on the disks.
LC1_3.book Page 38 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM 4 Select Configure Security Key Now and click Next. The security key configuration screen is displayed. 5 The following options are displayed: • Create Security Key • Change Security Key • Delete Security Key 6 Choose Create Security Key, if it is not configured and enter the details in the relevant fields on this page. 7 Click Finish.
LC1_3.book Page 39 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Physical Security Configuration Use the Physical Security Configuration Wizard to control access to the system control panel. To launch the Physical Security Configuration Wizard: 1 Click Hardware Configuration in the left pane. 2 Click Configuration Wizards in the right pane. 3 Click Physical Security Configuration to launch the wizard.
LC1_3.book Page 40 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM To return to the Configuration Wizards screen, click Back. To exit the wizard, click Cancel. iDRAC Configuration Use the iDRAC Configuration Wizard to configure and manage iDRAC parameters. This wizard is similar to the iDRAC Configuration Utility in the legacy BIOS operation. You can use the wizard to configure iDRAC parameters applicable to the system, such as LAN, common IP settings, IPv4, IPv6, virtual media, and LAN user configuration.
LC1_3.book Page 41 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • MAC Address — Enables you to view the Media Access Control (MAC) address that uniquely identifies each node in a network (read-only). • NIC Selection — Enables you to view or edit the NIC mode using the following mode options: – Dedicated — This option enables remote access to utilize the dedicated network interface available on the Dell Remote Access Controller (DRAC).
LC1_3.book Page 42 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM system is configured for NIC teaming. The remote access device receives data through NIC 1, NIC 2, NIC 3, and NIC 4; but it transmits data only through NIC 1. If NIC 1 fails, the remote access device will transmit data on NIC 2. If NIC 2 fails, the remote access device will transmit data on NIC 3. If NIC 3 fails, the remote access device will transmit data on NIC 4.
LC1_3.book Page 43 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Common IP Configuration Register the iDRAC name, set the domain name from DHCP, and specify the domain name and host name string. • Register iDRAC Name — If set to Yes, the iDRAC name is registered with the Domain Name System (DNS). If set to No, no registration takes place. • iDRAC Name — Enables you to view or edit the iDRAC name to be used when registering with DNS. The iDRAC Name string can contain up to 63 printable ASCII characters.
LC1_3.book Page 44 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • Ethernet IP Address — Enables you to specify or edit a static IPv4 address for the iDRAC NIC. The IP address you enter in the Ethernet IP Address field is reserved, and used only when DHCP fails to resolve and assign an available IP address. The Ethernet IP Address field is limited to a maximum value of 255.255.255.255. • Subnet Mask — Enables you to specify or edit the static subnet mask for the iDRAC NIC.
LC1_3.book Page 45 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • IPv6 — Enables or disables the iDRAC NIC IPv6 protocol support. Disabling IPv6 deactivates the remaining controls. • IP Address Source — Enables or disables the ability of the iDRAC NIC to acquire an IPv6 address from the DHCP server. Disabling IP Address Source deactivates the Ethernet IP Address, Prefix Length, and Default Gateway controls.
LC1_3.book Page 46 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • Default Gateway — Enables you to specify or edit the static IPv6 default gateway for the iDRAC NIC when not provided by DHCP. This is the address that will be used to route requests when they cannot be resolved locally. The Default Gateway field is limited to a maximum value of FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF.
LC1_3.book Page 47 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM media devices. If set to Auto-Attach, the virtual media device is automatically mapped to the server every time the user physically connects a media. • vFlash Status — Displays the status as either: • Formatted • Not formatted • Not present • Not licensed (the vFlash is not Dell-licensed) For more information on supported virtual media devices, see the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 (iDRAC6) User’s Guide available at support.dell.
LC1_3.book Page 48 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM A list of IP addresses and/or hostnames and ports separated by comma. • Hostname can be fully qualified. • IPv4 address – starts with ‘(‘ and ends with ‘)’ when specified at the same time with a hostname. • Each IP address or hostname can be optionally followed by a ‘:’ and a port number. • Example of valid strings are - hostname, hostname.domain.com • Account Access — Enables or disables account access.
LC1_3.book Page 49 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM – Enabled — Enabling Smart Card login disables all command-line out-of-band interfaces including SSM, Telnet, Serial, remote RACADM, and IPMI over LAN. – Disabled — On subsequent logins from the graphical user interface (GUI), the regular login page displays. All command-line out-of-band interfaces—including Secure Shell (SSH), Telnet, Serial, and RACADM—are set to their default states.
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LC1_3.book Page 51 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Foreign Configuration Found The Foreign Configuration Found screen displays only if a foreign configuration resides on the selected RAID controller. A foreign configuration is a set of physical disks containing a RAID configuration that has been introduced to the system but is not yet managed by the RAID controller to which it is attached.
LC1_3.book Page 52 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM more flexibility with physical disk selection, span configuration, cache policy, and other virtual disk attributes. Select Advanced Wizard to specify all virtual disk settings. NOTE: It is recommended that you have a good knowledge of RAID and your hardware configuration to use the Advanced Wizard. Click Next after making your selection.
LC1_3.book Page 53 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • RAID 60 — Combines the straight block level striping of RAID 0 with the distributed double parity of RAID 6. Your system must have at least eight physical disk to use RAID 60. Because RAID 60 is based on RAID 6, two physical disk from each of the RAID 6 sets could fail without loss of data. Failures while a single physical disk is rebuilding in one RAID 6 set do not lead to data loss.
LC1_3.book Page 54 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM To return to a previous screen to review or change selections, click Back. To exit the Wizard without making changes, click Cancel. For more control over the virtual disk attributes, click Cancel and use the Advanced Wizard to create the virtual disk. Advanced Wizard Only - Select Physical Disks Use the Select Physical Disks screen to select the physical disks to be used for the virtual disk.
LC1_3.book Page 55 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • Select the stripe element size from the Stripe Element Size drop-down menu. The stripe element size is the amount of disk space a stripe consumes on each physical disk in the stripe. The Stripe Element Size drop-down menu may contain more options than initially displayed on the screen. Use the up-arrow and down-arrow keys to display all options. • Select the read policy from the Read Policy drop-down menu.
LC1_3.book Page 56 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • Select the physical disk to be used as the hot spare from the Hot Spare Disk drop-down menu.A hot spare can be used only with a redundant RAID level. Hot spares also have requirements for physical disk size. The hot spare cannot be smaller than the smallest physical disk included in the virtual disk. If the RAID level and physical disk availability do not meet these requirements, the Assign a Hot Spare Disk check box is disabled.
LC1_3.book Page 57 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM configuration utilities in the past. HII also provides localization, meaning that utilities that were previously English-only, such as the BIOS setup, may now have a localized HII equivalent. As of the current release of USC - LCE, your server's default configuration contains setups for two device types that are supported in the Hardware Configuration Advanced Configuration: the system BIOS and NIC.
LC1_3.book Page 58 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • Broadcom 57710 NetXtreme II 10GigE Important • You can configure only one NIC at a time. • Integrated Broadcom NICs are controlled both by the BIOS and by settings stored on the device itself. As a result, the Boot Protocol field in the HII of integrated NICs has no effect; this setting is instead controlled by the BIOS on the Integrated Devices screen.
LC1_3.book Page 59 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Collect System Inventory on Restart When you enable the Collect System Inventory On Restart property, hardware inventory and part configuration information is discovered and compared with previous system inventory information on every system restart. 1 Click Hardware Configuration on the left pane. 2 Click on Part Replacement Configuration. 3 Click either Enabled or Disabled from the Collect System Inventory on Restart dropdown.
LC1_3.book Page 60 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • You must use USC Settings wizard to configure the network card on your system before accessing updates from the local FTP server. See "Using USC Settings Wizard" for more information. Creating the Local FTP Server Using Dell Server Updates DVD 1 Download the Dell Server Updates ISO to your system from Dell Support site at support.dell.com, and burn it to a DVD.
LC1_3.book Page 61 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM A USB device is not required for users that have access to ftp.dell.com through a proxy server. For the latest updates, download the most recent Dell Server Updates ISO for your system from the Dell Support website at support.dell.com.
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LC1_3.book Page 63 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Remote Service Features 3 The Dell™ Lifecycle Controller Remote Services are a set of features that allow systems management in a one-to-many mode. Remote Services capabilities use the web services based hardware management interface provided by the Lifecycle Controller firmware. They are aimed at simplifying tasks like operating system deployment, remote update and inventory, and automating the setup and configuration of new Dell systems remotely.
LC1_3.book Page 64 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM 64 • Host LAN Network Port — defines CIM classes for representing a network port that provides a LAN interface to a host system, its associated controller, and network interfaces. • Service Processor — defines CIM classes for modeling service processors. • USB Redirection — defines CIM classes for describing information about USB redirections.
LC1_3.book Page 65 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • Battery — defines CIM classes for describing and setting the logical properties of the battery. Such properties include the description of the battery’s charge status and the time it takes for the battery charge to be depleted. The profile also describes operations such as recharging the battery. Dell Extensions • Dell Active Directory Client Version 2.0.
LC1_3.book Page 66 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • Dell Software Inventory Profile — Defines CIM and Dell Extensions for representing currently installed BIOS, component firmware, Diagnostics, Unified Server Configurator, and Driver Pack versions. Also provides representation of versions of BIOS and firmware update images available in Lifecycle Controller for rollback and re-installation. • Dell Job Control Profile — Defines CIM and Dell extensions for managing jobs generated by update requests.
LC1_3.book Page 67 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM What’s New in Remote Services 1.3 These are the new features introduced in 1.3: • Auto-Discovery enhancements • Remote firmware inventory and update • Operating system deployment using Dell-licensed vFlash • Part replacement Auto-Discovery The Auto-Discovery feature allows newly installed servers to automatically discover the remote management console that hosts the Provisioning Server.
LC1_3.book Page 68 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM support for Auto-Discovery. There are several options for enabling the network environment to support discovery of the Provisioning Server host by unprovisioned servers. One of the following prerequisites must be met for the Auto-Discovery feature to work properly: • The DHCP server provides a comma separated list of Provisioning Server locations using a vendor scope option of class LifecycleController option 1.
LC1_3.book Page 69 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM 11 Select Disabled. This disables the default administrative account. 12 Save and exit iDRAC6 Configuration Utility. 13 Restart your system. Enabling/Disabling Auto-Discovery 1 Press when prompted within 5 seconds during system start-up. The iDRAC6 Configuration Utility page displays. 2 Navigate to LAN User Configuration. 3 Select Auto-Discovery. 4 Select Enable to enable the Auto-Discovery feature.
LC1_3.book Page 70 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Connecting Directly to Provisioning Server for Handshake This feature allows you to directly connect to a specified Provisioning Server host for handshake and registration of the new server on the network. The provisioning server IP address or host name can be configured through the USC console, iDRAC6 configuration utility or preset at the factory.
LC1_3.book Page 71 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • Each IP address or hostname can be optionally followed by a ‘:’ and a port number. • Examples of valid strings are - hostname, hostname.domain.com Setting Provisioning Server using the USC Console 1 Press System Services when prompted within 5 seconds during system start-up. The Unified Server Configurator Lifecycle Controller Enabled page displays. 2 Navigate to Hardware Configuration -> Configuration Wizard -> iDRAC6 Configuration.
LC1_3.book Page 72 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM When the server is powered on in the new data center, Auto-Discovery will run according to the settings, and will download the new user credentials for the new data center. This interface is supported using WS-MAN only, and the WS-MAN requests require iDRAC administrator username password credentials or credentials for an iDRAC user with Execute Server Command privilege.
LC1_3.book Page 73 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • ResetToFactoryDefaults: required parameter (TRUE or FALSE) to indicate whether the current configuration data needs to be deleted prior to the next cycle of Auto-Discovery. Only TRUE will be accepted; specifying FALSE will cause an error message indicating the parameter value is not supported. TRUE will reset iDRAC to the default values and then set iDRAC for Auto-Discovery.
LC1_3.book Page 74 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Providing Custom Server Certificates using WS-MAN The DownloadServerPublicKey() method on the DCIM_LCService class can be called to transfer a Provisioning Server public key certificate. The Provisioning Server public key can be used as part of strict mutual authentication between the Auto-Discovery client and the provisioning server. The method takes as input a Provisioning Server public key certificate and related hash and hash type parameters.
LC1_3.book Page 75 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM software inventory; it is not restricted to administrators. You can get a list of firmware for devices that are installed, and also the firmware that is available for rollback and reinstallation.
LC1_3.book Page 76 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM 4 The enumeration request will generate a WinRM error when the UEFI system services are set to Disabled. 5 Requested inventories are collected as "Installed" and "Available" CIM instances. 6 The software currently installed on the component is listed as the "Installed Software Instance".
LC1_3.book Page 77 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Remote Update Remote update, also known as out-of-band update or operating systemindependent platform update, allows you to update the system independent of the state of the operating system or the power on/off state. Benefits of Remote Update With Operating System independent platform update, an operating system need not be running on the system.
LC1_3.book Page 78 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • If you have NIC cards of different families on your system, different tasks will be displayed for each NIC card family. For example, if the LOMS and the add-in NIC card are both 5709, you will see two tasks. If you have 5709 LOMS and 5710 add-in NIC card, four tasks will be displayed.
LC1_3.book Page 79 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM 5 Using the update and reboot Job IDs, you can use the DCIM_JobService profile to schedule these jobs to run immediately or at future date and time. You can also use the Job ID to query the status of a job or to cancel a job. 6 All jobs will be marked successful or, if an error occurred during downloading or updating, failed. For failed jobs, the error message and error message ID for the failure are available in the job information.
LC1_3.book Page 80 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Important USC, Diagnostics and Driver Pack updates cannot be rolled back. Rolling Back to Previous Versions Use the InstallFromSoftwareIdentity() method to reinstall from previous versions of firmware for a component that are stored in the Lifecycle Controller. Instead of downloading the DUP, the InstallFromSoftwareIdentity() creates a job and returns the job ID.
LC1_3.book Page 81 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • Reboot 1 - Power cycle - Performs the iDRAC PowerCycle that will power down the system and power it back up. This is not a graceful reboot. The system will power off the system without sending a shutdown request to an operating system running on the system. Only reboot type 1 will power on the system if the system is in an Off state, but A/C power is still applied.
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LC1_3.book Page 83 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Important • • The drivers unpacked and attached are removed after the time specified in ExposeDuration parameter or if no time is specified in the method invocation then by default the OEMDRV USB device will be removed after 18 hours. • Ensure that ISO images attached during the process are detached before you use system services. • When installing Red Hat Linux 5.
LC1_3.book Page 84 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • 84 The following methods are used to directly detach the local OEMDRV device or the network ISO image. These can be used before the previously set exposure durations time out: a The DetachDrivers() method on the DCIM_OSDeploymentService class detaches and removes the OEMDRV device that had been previously attached by an invocation of the UnpackAndAttach() method.
LC1_3.book Page 85 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Dell Message Registry XML files. The Dell Message Registry files are available in the six supported languages, one file per language. In addition to translated error messages, the Message Registry files contain additional detailed error descriptions and recommended response actions for each error returned by the Lifecycle Controller Remote Services web service interface.
LC1_3.book Page 86 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM For more information on the Lifecycle Controller Remote Operating Systems Deployment feature including the Lifecycle Controller 1.3 Web Services Interface Guideline, white papers, the Dell OS Deployment Profile data model specification, class definition (.mof) files, sample code and scripts, see the Lifecycle Controller area on the Dell Enterprise Technology Center at www.delltechcenter.com.
LC1_3.book Page 87 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • DeleteISOFromVFlash - Deletes the ISO image from the vFlash partition. It provides the capability to download an ISO image to the vFlash and then boot from it, allowing you to download custom install images to run from. This command will execute only if the ISO is detached. You will need to perform the following steps to complete the process: 1 Download the ISO image to the vFlash. 2 Get the concrete job ID and poll for the completion of this job.
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LC1_3.book Page 89 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM • Allow version upgrade only - If the input for the CurrentValue is Allow version upgrade only, firmware update on replaced parts will be performed if the firmware version of the new part is lower than the original part. • Match firmware of replaced part - If the input for the CurrentValue is Match firmware of replaced part, firmware on the new part will be updated to the version of the original part.
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LC1_3.book Page 91 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM A Troubleshooting and Frequently Asked Questions This section describes the error messages commonly generated by USC and USC - LCE, and provides suggestions for resolving the errors. It also answers questions that are frequently asked by USC and USC - LCE users. Also see ftp://ftp.dell.com/LifecycleController/ to locate the file matching LC_*1.3.0*_MSG_REG.zip for the 1.3 Message Registry XML files for Remote Enablement web services.
LC1_3.book Page 92 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Table A-1. USC and USC - LCE Error Messages and Resolutions (continued) Error Message Resolution Unable to copy driver files The drivers required to install the operating system are corrupted. To resolve this issue, perform a platform update (see "Updating the Platform using the Platform Update Wizard.
LC1_3.book Page 93 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Table A-1. USC and USC - LCE Error Messages and Resolutions (continued) Error Message Resolution The inserted OS media is invalid The operating system media is damaged or corrupted, or the optical device used to read the media is not functioning correctly. The updates you are USC or USC - LCE has detected that one or more of the trying to apply are not DUPs used to update your system are not Dell authorized.
LC1_3.book Page 94 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Table A-1. USC and USC - LCE Error Messages and Resolutions (continued) Error Message Resolution Please enter a valid Default Gateway Address Enter a valid default gateway address that is between 0.0.0.0 and 255.255.255.255. Please enter a valid IPv4 Enter a valid IPv4 DNS Server1 address that is between DNS Server 1 Address 0.0.0.0 and 255.255.255.255.
LC1_3.book Page 95 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Table A-2. USC Error Messages and Resolutions Error Message Resolution Unable to find a device USC cannot detect a device to read the operating system capable of reading the OS media. One of the following situations is probably causing install media the error: • No optical device is available on the system. Shut down the system and add a SATA optical device or USB optical device. • If an optical device is present, it may not be properly connected.
LC1_3.book Page 96 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Table A-3. USC - LCE Error Messages and Resolutions Error Message Resolution Drivers pack not found USC - LCE cannot find the drivers required to install the operating system. To resolve this issue, perform a platform OR update (see "Updating the Platform using the Platform Error populating OS list Update Wizard.)" Unable to find a device USC - LCE cannot detect a device to read the operating capable of reading the system media.
LC1_3.book Page 97 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Table A-3. USC - LCE Error Messages and Resolutions (continued) Error Message Resolution File seek of catalog archive failed The catalog downloaded to compare currently installed versions with the latest available versions is corrupt. This error may be caused by temporary network problems; try again later to connect to the update repository.
LC1_3.book Page 98 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Table A-3. USC - LCE Error Messages and Resolutions (continued) Error Message Resolution Please enter the IPv6 Default Gateway address Enter the IPv6 default gateway address. See "IPv6 Configuration." Please enter a valid IPv6 Enter a valid IPv6 DNS Server1 address. DNS Server 1 Address See "IPv6 Configuration." Please enter a valid IPv6 Enter a valid IPv6 DNS Server2 address. DNS Server 2 Address See "IPv6 Configuration.
LC1_3.book Page 99 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Table A-3. USC - LCE Error Messages and Resolutions (continued) Error Message Resolution RAID configuration failed USC - LCE failed when creating the RAID configuration. To resolve this issue: 1 Reboot the system. 2 Re-enter USC - LCE by pressing the key. 3 Try again to create the RAID configuration. Generic Failure USC - LCE experienced an unidentified error when creating the RAID configuration. To resolve this issue: 1 Reboot the system.
LC1_3.book Page 100 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Table A-3. USC - LCE Error Messages and Resolutions (continued) Error Message Resolution An error occurred. One An error occurred when changing Hardware Advanced or more settings may Configuration settings. To resolve this issue: not be saved. 1 Reboot the system. 2 Re-enter USC - LCE by pressing the key. 3 Change the settings again. An error occurred.
LC1_3.book Page 101 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Table A-4. Lifecycle Controller Error Messages and Resolutions (continued) Error Message Resolution Cannot access Driver Pack partition in Lifecycle Controller. Driver Pack partition in Lifecycle Controller is not accessible. The Lifecycle Controller might be corrupted. 1 Reset iDRAC and run the command. Driver Pack not found in No Driver Pack in Lifecycle Controller.
LC1_3.book Page 102 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Table A-4. Lifecycle Controller Error Messages and Resolutions (continued) Error Message Resolution Mount network share failed - incorrect IP address or share name. Unable to mount the network share using the credentials specified in the command. Either IP address or share name is incorrect. 1 Run the command again with correct IP address and share name. Exposing ISO image as internal device to the host system failed.
LC1_3.book Page 103 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Table A-4. Lifecycle Controller Error Messages and Resolutions (continued) Error Message Resolution Unable to continue Cannot continue with DetachISOImage because another with DetachISOImage - command is in the process of exposing ISO image and another command is in booting to it. the process of exposing 1 See ConcreteJob status to ensure that the current running ISO Image and process is complete and then run DetachISOImage. booting to it.
LC1_3.book Page 104 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Table A-4. Lifecycle Controller Error Messages and Resolutions (continued) Error Message Resolution Invalid value for ExposeDuration - must be 60-65535 seconds The value specified for ExposeDuration is out of range. It must be 60-65535 seconds 1 Run the command again with ExposeDuration value 60 to 65535 seconds. Copying operating system drivers to network share failed Copying drivers for selected operating system to network share failed.
LC1_3.book Page 105 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Frequently Asked Questions When USC - LCE downloads updates, where are the files stored? The files are stored in non-volatile memory, located on the main system board. This memory is not removable and is not accessible through the operating system. Is a virtual media device or vFlash card required to store data for updates? No. The files are stored in memory on the main system board.
LC1_3.book Page 106 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Can I update the drivers used by an installed operating system through USC or USC - LCE? No. USC or USC - LCE only provides drivers that are required for operating system installation. To update the drivers used by an installed operating system, see your operating system’s help documentation. Can I add my own drivers and firmware for updating USC or USC - LCE to a local USB device? No.
LC1_3.book Page 107 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Within Hardware Configuration, what is the difference between the Configuration Wizards and Advanced Configuration? USC - LCE offers two ways to configure hardware: Configuration Wizards and Advanced Configuration. Configuration Wizards guide you through a sequence of steps to configure your system devices. The Configuration Wizards include iDRAC, RAID, System Date/Time, and Physical Security. See "Hardware Configuration" for more information.
LC1_3.book Page 108 Monday, December 7, 2009 3:14 PM Which devices are supported in Advanced Configuration within Hardware Configuration? Advanced Configuration is available for the BIOS and NIC. Depending on your system configuration, other devices may also appear in Advanced Configuration if they support the HII configuration standard. See "Hardware Configuration" for more information.
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