Reference Guide

13 Lifecycle Controller Web Services Interface Guide for Linux
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) 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
 Backup & Restore of Server Profiles
 Automatic scheduled backup of server profiles
 Automatic scheduled firmware updates
 XML based Server Configuration
 WS-Eventing for event notifications
The target audience for this document are script writers and the application that utilizes the remote
management capabilities using WS-Man protocol available from Dell Lifecycle Controller.