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Dell™ Lifecycle Controller 2 Web Services Interface Guide for Windows Version: 2.1.0
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1 Introduction
This document serves as a guideline for utilizing the functionality available from embedded Lifecycle
Controller Remote Enablement Web Services interfaces. The purpose of this document is to provide
information and examples for utilizing the Web services for Management (WS-Man) management
protocol using Windows WinRM and open source WSMANCLI command line utilities. Examples and
invocation information is provided for the following functionality.
 Inventory for BIOS, component firmware and embedded software
 Update of BIOS, component firmware and embedded software
 Job Control of update tasks
 Enhancement of Operating System Deployment using VFlash SD Card
 Enhancement of Discovery and Handshake from LifeCycle Controller 1.x
 Raid configuration management
 iDRAC Inventory and configuration features
 NIC configuration management
 Boot configuration management
 BIOS configuration management
The target audience for this document is application and script writers that want to utilize the remote
management capabilities using WS-Man protocol available from Dell Lifecycle Controller.
2 References
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Dell 12
th
Generation PowerEdge Server Resources:
http://www.delltechcenter.com/12thGen
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Dell CIM Profiles:
http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/DCIM.Library.Profile
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Managed Object Format (MOF) files
http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/DCIM.Library.MOF
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WinRM Scripting API, MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384469(VS.85).aspx
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Openwsman CLI:
http://www.openwsman.org/project/wsmancli
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DMTF Common Information Model (CIM) Infrastructure Specification (DSP0004):
http://www.dmtf.org/standards/published_documents/DSP0004_2.5.0.pdf