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Remote Services Features
Using Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services, you can perform the following operations:
• Deploy and Configure
• Monitor
• Maintain
• Create and schedule jobs

Deployment and configuration

Using various Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services' capabilities, you can perform different configurations
on a system throughout its lifecycle. You can perform operations such as BIOS, iDRAC, RAID, and NIC
configurations, and operating system deployment on the system.

Server configuration profiles

The server configuration profiles file contains the component configuration information that is used to
apply the configuration for BIOS, iDRAC, RAID, NIC, FC-HBA, System, and Lifecycle Controller by
importing the file to a target system. For more information and white papers, see Server Cloning with
Server Configuration Profiles and Creating and Managing Server Configuration Profiles documents
available at delltechcenter.com/iDRAC and en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-
management/w/wiki/1906.aspx.

BIOS configuration

The BIOS and boot configuration feature gets and sets any of the configurable BIOS attributes that are
exposed in BIOS UEFI HII. You can perform the following operations:
• Retrieve current configuration of BIOS inventory
• Retrieve current boot configuration settings
• Manage the boot order configuration
• Change the BIOS boot mode or UEFI boot mode
• Manage BIOS passwords
• Change the boot order
• Enable or disable boot sources
• One-time boot support to any device listed in the boot order

iDRAC configuration

The iDRAC configuration feature is used to manage the properties and interfaces for running system
management tasks related to the management of basic properties of iDRAC. The remote access
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