Clear Lifecycle Controller log by WSMAN command or script ?

Thanks. A customer of mine - a hoster - asked me this. They offer R720 as dedicated servers for their own customers. And this means repurposing the machine from time to time - which means that they want to give a "clean" system. They complained, that they need to boot into LC and to do this manually, they want to automate it.

May be lcwipe could be the right approach - we will discuss this....

Regards & have a nice weekend,

stephan.

@Stephan

Lifecycle log is meant to keep the lifecycle history of events and hence there is no wsman method to clear it. However it gets cleared with a system wipe which is designed to get the system retire or repurpose. The LCL does not get cleared on export.

May I know the usecase (other than system retire or repurpose)  where you would like to clear it ?

Hi Stephan,

When you export the LC logs, it does NOT clear the LC logs. There is no option to delete the LC logs unless you execute the LCWipe method on the iDRAC. I would not recommend you to perform LCWipe since it will delete all config details as well along with the LCLogs.

You can export the LC logs winrm command -

Here ShareType=2 means CIFS and 0 would mean NFS. For NFS you can skip the Username and Password parameters.

winrm i ExportLCLog http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/root/dcim/DCIM_LCService?SystemCreationClassName=DCIM
_ComputerSystem+CreationClassName=DCIM_LCService+SystemName=DCIM:ComputerSystem+
Name=DCIM:LCService -u:username -p:password -r:https://idracip/wsman -SkipCNChec
k -SkipCACheck -encoding:utf-8 -a:basic @{IPAddress="shareip";ShareName="sharename";FileName="lclog1";ShareType="2";Username="UN";Password="PWD"}

ExportLCLog_OUTPUT
    Job
        EndpointReference
            Address = http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing/role/anon
ymous
            ReferenceParameters
                ResourceURI = http://schemas.dell.com/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/
DCIM_LifecycleJob
                SelectorSet
                    Selector: InstanceID = JID_712710243878, __cimnamespace = ro
ot/dcim
    ReturnValue = 4096

You can check if it is properly exported using the job ID created-

winrm g "http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/DCIM_LifecycleJob?InstanceID=JID_712710243878+__cimnamespace=root/dcim" -u:usernam -p:password -r:https://10.94.195.162/wsman -encoding:utf-8 -a:basi
c -SkipCNcheck -SkipCAcheck -SkipRevocationCheck
DCIM_LifecycleJob
    ElapsedTimeSinceCompletion = 0
    InstanceID = JID_712710243878
    JobStartTime = NA
    JobStatus = Completed
    JobUntilTime = NA
    Message = LCL Export was successful
    MessageArguments = NA
    MessageID = LC022
    Name = LC Export
    PercentComplete = 100

Let me know if this worked for you.

Regards,

Mondeep