Dell Lifecycle Controller Remote Services v2.70.70.70 Quick Start Guide September 2019 Rev. A00 Notes, cautions, and warnings NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your product. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. © 2018 - 2019 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Dell, EMC, and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. Other trademarks may be trademarks of their respective owners. Contents 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 3 Viewing the managed computer system using the Physical Computer System View................ 20 Job management...............................................................................................................................................................20 Job types.......................................................................................................................................................................20 System status............................................................................................................................................................... 21 Chapter 3: Getting started with API collateral and links.............................................................. 22 WSMAN Profiles................................................................................................................................................................22 Lifecycle Controller-related profiles........................................................................................................................22 WSMAN MOF WSDL and XSD API definitions.......................................................................................................... 25 Managed object file.....................................................................................................................................................26 Web service description language...........................................................................................................................26 XML schema description........................................................................................................................................... 26 Web services interface guide......................................................................................................................................... 26 WSMAN Best practices