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Managing BOSS

BOSS-S1 management is supported on PowerEdge 14G servers by both In Band and Out of Band utilities. It

has enriched support from iDRAC as well as OpenManage systems management solutions, as shown in

Table 2 below:

Table 2 : BOSS-S1 System Management Features

• Managing BOSS is accomplished with standard, well-known management tools including

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) RAID Configuration Utility, OpenManage

Systems Administrator (OMSA), Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) and

Command line interface (CLI)

• UEFI RAID Configuration Utility is the storage management application is integrated into the

System BIOS (F2)

• Inventory and Monitoring Support for BOSS-S1 is provided by OpenManage Systems

Administrator (OMSA) and Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC)

• Configuration support from DellEMC Lifecycle controller and iDRAC

• Command Line Interface (CLI) support for managing BOSS from Windows Server, Linux and

VMware ESXi Operating Systems

• Out of Band Firmware Update support for BOSS-S1 using iDRAC and Lifecycle

controller

For further information about BOSS, please see:

• Blog: BOSS-S1 System Management Features

• User Guide (PDF): BOSS-S1 User Guide

• Brief video: BOSS Feature Overview