Reference Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Lifecycle Controller Remote Services v2.40.40.40 Quick Start Guide
- Introduction
- Why use Lifecycle Controller?
- Benefits of using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller
- Key features
- What’s new in this release?
- Why use Lifecycle Controller Remote Services?
- Licensable features in Lifecycle Controller
- What are Redfish and the Web Service APIs?
- Where can the Lifecycle Controller API be used from?
- Who can use the API?
- How is one-to-many management achieved?
- Other information that you may need
- Accessing support content from the Dell EMC support site
- Contacting Dell
- Remote Services Features
- Deployment and configuration
- Monitor
- Maintain
- Job management
- Getting started with API collateral and links
- Integrating the Lifecycle Controller API
- Social media reference
- Terms and definitions
Integrating the Lifecycle Controller API
This section outlines the resources required to integrate the Lifecycle Controller API into an application:
● API Clients– Lists the API clients that are available to support WinRM or WSMAN. The API clients enable a you to create an
application in a variety of programming languages.
●
Best Practices Guide— Provides information about the common work flows, where in ready-to-use Python scripts are
provided for all the common work flows.
● Sample Scripts and Tools— Provides additional working examples and reference.
● Applications Using Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services — Lists several existing applications that are already
integrated with the Lifecycle Controller API.
● WinRM and OpenWSMAN Installation and Configuration— Identifies resources for configuring WinRM and WSMAN.
Topics:
• API clients
• Best practices workflow references
• Sample scripts and tools
• Applications using Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services
• WinRM and OpenWSMAN installation and configuration
API clients
The links to various API clients:
● WinRM Scripting API, MSDN — msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384469(VS.85).aspx
● Redfish — https://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish
● Openwsman CLI — https://github.com/Openwsman/wsmancli
● Windows PowerShell blog — blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell
● Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter — microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx
● Recite — Interactive WSMAN Scripting Environment — en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-
management/w/wiki/3757.recite-interactive-ws-man-scripting-environment.aspx
● Intel WSMAN Java Client Library — software.intel.com/en-us/articles/download-the-latest-intel-ws-management-
java-client-library
Best practices workflow references
For more information, see Best practices guide.
Sample scripts and tools
A few sample scripts to use Lifecycle Controller API are available for use with Recite. Recite is a Python-based tool that
provides a simple and fast interface for using the Dell Lifecycle Controller API. It has an interactive mode that is useful to run a
single command on a server or run batch commands to automate the sequence of operations.
● Interactive Recite environment — en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/3757.recite-
interactive-ws-man-scripting-environment.aspx
● Other scripting examples — en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/1981.scripting-the-
dell-lifecycle-controller.aspx
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