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• Improved Productivity and Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) — Extending the reach of administrators to larger numbers of
distant servers can make IT staff more productive while driving down operational costs such as travel.
• Enhanced Security— By providing secure access to remote servers, administrators can perform critical management functions while
maintaining server and network security.
• Increased Efficiency— With Lifecycle Controller Remote Services, you can automate the server configuration management using Dell
OpenManage Essentials and Dell partner consoles, which enables efficient administration as server deployments scale.
For more information about iDRAC, see the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller User’s Guide available at www.dell.com/
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Key features
You can perform the following systems management tasks using Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services:
• Install operating systems and drivers
• Manage licensing
• Perform server firmware update including BIOS, iDRAC/LC, backplane and enclosure controllers, RAID, NIC/CNA, Fibre Channel host
bus adapters, PCIe SSDs, SAS HDDs and SSDs, and SATA HDD
• Part Replacement and automatic restore of server configuration
• Get hardware inventory information
• Get and set NIC/CNA, Fibre Channel host bus adapters (FC-HBA), PCIe SSDs, and RAID configuration
• Get and set BIOS configuration and BIOS passwords
• Full export of Lifecycle log and add work notes
• Export current- and factory-shipped hardware inventory log
• Manage, attach, and boot to vFlash SD card partitions
• Lock the controllers using the local key
• Export and import the server profile
• Import server license
• View firmware details during server update
• Export and import Server Configuration Profiles
• Schedule and track the status of the update and configuration
• Import and export Server Configuration Profiles file that contains information about a component configuration
• Out-of-band server performance monitoring
• Enhance security using hash password
• View logs, monitoring, and server information, and configure the network parameters of a server using a mobile device
• Delete server-related information
• View the managed system using Physical Computer System View
• Manage the web server certificate
• Configure the USB management port
• View SupportAssist Collection to resolve business-critical issues
• Replace motherboard using Import Server Profile feature
New in this release
The updates supported in this release are:
• Added support for firmware update for Intel P4510 and P4610 SSD drives.
• Added support for iDSDM device firmware update.
• Added firmware update support via HTTPS.
• Removed the default URL from the FTP server settings option.
• The default URL on the HTTPS page is downloads.dell.com.
Advantages of using Lifecycle Controller Remote
Services
When Dell examined the most common management tasks and the inefficiencies associated with them, it discovered that the additional
time taken for performing management tasks was not because of the tools, but it was because of how the functions were split between
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Introduction