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13th generation servers —After restarting the server, when prompted, press F10 to access Dell Lifecycle Controller. Go to the
Hardware Inventory page by clicking Hardware Configuration → Hardware Inventory. On the Hardware Inventory page, click
Collect System Inventory on Restart.
Viewing Stored Profile Settings
To view profile settings of the stored server profiles, go to the Server Profiles page. In the Stored Profiles section, click View in the
View Profile column for the required server profile. The View Settings page is displayed. For more information about the displayed
settings, see the Online Help.
Viewing Profile Log
To view the profile log, in the Server Profiles page, see the Recent Profile Log section. This section lists the 10 latest profile log
entries directly from server configuration operations. Each log entry displays the severity, the time and date of submission of the
server configuration replication operation, and the replication log message description. The log entries are also available in the RAC
log. To view the other available entries, click Go to Profile Log. The Profile Log page is displayed. For more information, see the
Online Help.
Completion Status And Troubleshooting
To check the completion status of an applied BIOS profile:
1.
In the left pane, click Chassis Overview → Server Overview → Setup → Profiles.
2.
On the Server Profiles page, note down the Job ID (JID) of the submitted job from the Recent Profile Log section.
3.
In the left pane, click Server Overview → Troubleshooting → Lifecycle Controller Jobs. Search for the same JID in the Jobs
table. For more information about performing Lifecycle Controller jobs using CMC, see
4.
Click View Log link to view the results of Lclogview from the iDRAC Lifecycle Controller for the specific server.
The results displayed for the completion or failure are similar to the information displayed in the iDRAC Lifecycle Controller log
for the specific server.
Quick Deploy of Profiles
The Quick Deploy feature enables you to assign a stored profile to a server slot. Any server supporting server configuration
replication that is inserted into a slot is configured using the profile assigned to that slot. You can perform the Quick Deploy action
only if the Action When Server is Inserted option on the Deploy iDRAC page is set to Server Profile option or Quick Deploy and
Server Profile option. Selecting this option allows to apply the server profile assigned when a new server is inserted in the chassis.
To go to the Deploy iDRAC page, select Server Overview → Setup → iDRAC. Profiles that can be deployed are stored in the SD
card or remote share. To set up the profiles for quick deploy, you must have Chassis Administrator privileges.
NOTE:
Assigning Server Profiles to Slots
The Server Profiles page enables you to assign server profiles to slots. To assign a profile to the chassis slots:
1.
On the Server Profiles page, click Profiles for QuickDeploy.
The current profile assignments are displayed for the slots in the select boxes contained in the Assign Profile column.
NOTE: You can perform the Quick Deploy action only if the Action When Server is Inserted option in the Deploy
iDRAC page is set to Server Profile or Quick Deploy then Server Profile. Selecting this option allows to apply the
server profile assigned when a new server is inserted in the chassis.
2.
From the drop-down menu, select the profile to assign to the required slot. You can select a profile to apply to multiple slots.
3.
Click Assign Profile.
The profile is assigned to the selected slots.
Lifecycle Controller Job
Operations.
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