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Dell™ Lifecycle Controller 2 Web Services Interface Guide for Linux 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. 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
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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
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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)
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
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List of PCI IDs: