Concept Guide

Contents
1 Introduction.....................................................................................................................5
Why use Lifecycle Controller?............................................................................................................................................5
Benefits of using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller..............................................................................................................5
Key features.......................................................................................................................................................................6
What’s new in this release?................................................................................................................................................6
Why use Lifecycle Controller Remote Services?................................................................................................................ 7
Licensable features in Lifecycle Controller..........................................................................................................................7
What are Redfish and the Web Service APIs?....................................................................................................................7
Where can the Lifecycle Controller API be used from?...................................................................................................... 8
Who can use the API?........................................................................................................................................................8
How is one-to-many management achieved?.................................................................................................................... 9
Other information that you may need.................................................................................................................................9
Social Media Reference.............................................................................................................................................. 10
Accessing documents from Dell support site.................................................................................................................... 10
Contacting Dell................................................................................................................................................................. 10
2 Remote Services Features.............................................................................................12
Deployment and configuration.......................................................................................................................................... 12
Server configuration profiles....................................................................................................................................... 12
BIOS configuration......................................................................................................................................................12
iDRAC configuration....................................................................................................................................................12
RAID configuration......................................................................................................................................................13
NIC configuration........................................................................................................................................................13
Operating system deployment.................................................................................................................................... 14
Near Field Communication (NFC) using the QuickSync feature..................................................................................14
Configuring advanced security using hash password..................................................................................................15
Configuring USB management port............................................................................................................................ 15
Monitor.............................................................................................................................................................................15
Collecting System Inventory....................................................................................................................................... 16
Hardware inventory.................................................................................................................................................... 16
Lifecycle log................................................................................................................................................................16
System event log........................................................................................................................................................ 17
Firmware inventory..................................................................................................................................................... 17
Event alerts.................................................................................................................................................................17
SupportAssist Collection............................................................................................................................................. 17
Out-of-band server performance monitoring..............................................................................................................18
Maintain............................................................................................................................................................................18
Server configuration profiles — export or import....................................................................................................... 18
Firmware update.........................................................................................................................................................19
Part replacement........................................................................................................................................................ 19
Server profile—export or import.................................................................................................................................19
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