User's Manual

4 Contents
Remotely Reinitiating Auto-Discovery in
New Environments
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Managing Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Using Custom Certificates
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Deploying the Operating System
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Operating System Deployment Features
. . . . . . 27
Remote Operating System
Deployment Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Operating System Deployment
Typical Use Case Scenario
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Staging and Booting to Operating System
Image on vFlash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Using Remote Update
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Benefits of Remote Update
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Supported Devices
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Scheduling Remote Update
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Remote Scheduling Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Managing Part Replacement
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Using Remote Firmware Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Instant Firmware Inventory
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Supported Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Firmware Inventory Using WS-Management
. . . 41
Retrieving Hardware Inventory
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Exporting Hardware Inventory
. . . . . . . . . . . 43
Viewing and Exporting Hardware Inventory
after Resetting Lifecycle Controller
. . . . . . . . . 43
Lifecycle Log
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Exporting Lifecycle Log
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Deleting Configuration and
Resetting to Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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