Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration Version 3.3 for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager User's Guide

Auto-discovery and handshake

The auto-discovery and handshake feature enables the iDRAC on target systems to locate the provisioning service and establish communication with the Site Server. The Dell Provisioning service provisions a management account and updates Configuration Manager with the new system. The Dell Lifecycle Controller Utility (DLCU) for Configuration Manager uses the provisioned account to communicate with the iDRAC of target systems, to invoke the enabled features.

After DLCI for Configuration Manager discovers a system with iDRAC, it creates the All Dell Lifecycle Controller Servers collection under Devices Collections in Configuration Manager Version 1610, Configuration Manager 2012 SP2, Configuration Manager 2012 R2 SP1, Configuration Manager 2012 R2, Configuration Manager 2012 SP1, or Configuration Manager 2012. There are two sub-collections within the collection:

• Managed Dell Lifecycle Controller (OS Deployed) — displays the systems on which you have deployed the operating system.
• Managed Dell Lifecycle Controller (OS Unknown) — displays the systems on which the operating system is not deployed.
  NOTE

  • DLCI for Configuration Manager does not support auto-discovery of modular systems with flex-addressing.
  • Duplicate collections may get created when Auto-Discovery and Import Dell Server operations are done simultaneously. Dell recommends that you delete duplicate DLCI Collections.