Concept Guide

Chapter 1: Introduction................................................................................................................. 5
Advantages of using Lifecycle Controller...................................................................................................................... 5
Benefits of using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller...................................................................................................... 6
Key features..........................................................................................................................................................................6
New in this release.............................................................................................................................................................. 6
Advantages of using Lifecycle Controller Remote Services..................................................................................... 7
Licensable features in Lifecycle Controller....................................................................................................................7
About iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish and Web Service APIs.............................................................................. 7
About Lifecycle Controller API......................................................................................................................................... 7
About one-to-many management achieved..................................................................................................................8
Other information that you may need............................................................................................................................ 9
Social Media Reference................................................................................................................................................9
Accessing documents from the Dell EMC support site..............................................................................................9
Contacting Dell................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Chapter 2: Remote Services Features...........................................................................................11
Deployment and configuration.........................................................................................................................................11
Server configuration profiles......................................................................................................................................11
BIOS configuration........................................................................................................................................................11
iDRAC configuration.....................................................................................................................................................11
RAID configuration.......................................................................................................................................................12
NIC configuration......................................................................................................................................................... 13
Operating system deployment.................................................................................................................................. 13
Near Field Communication using the QuickSync feature................................................................................... 13
Configuring advanced security using hash password..........................................................................................14
Configuring USB management port.........................................................................................................................14
Monitor................................................................................................................................................................................. 14
Collecting system inventory...................................................................................................................................... 15
Hardware inventory..................................................................................................................................................... 15
Lifecycle log...................................................................................................................................................................15
System event log..........................................................................................................................................................16
Firmware inventory......................................................................................................................................................16
Event alerts................................................................................................................................................................... 16
SupportAssist Collection............................................................................................................................................ 16
Out-of-band server performance monitoring........................................................................................................16
Maintain................................................................................................................................................................................ 17
Server configuration profiles—export or import.................................................................................................. 17
Firmware update...........................................................................................................................................................18
Part replacement..........................................................................................................................................................18
Server profile—export or import..............................................................................................................................18
Server license — import............................................................................................................................................ 19
Provisioning Server......................................................................................................................................................19
Retire or repurpose the server................................................................................................................................. 19
Managing the web server certificate............................................................................................................... 19
Contents
Contents 3