Dell Power Edge R620 Life Cycle controller question

[Smokie]

Hi Everyone,

I have successfully installed Truenas Scale on my server and everything is working as expected. I have however noticed one thing when booting up. I get this notification that the lifecycle controller is disabled and I have to press F1 to carry on booting to truenas.
So if I ever have to reboot the server I need to connect the monitor and keyboard back up to press F1.

Has anyone running a similar server had this issue? Can I just enable the lifecycle controller or will this cause an issue??

Thanks in advance.

 

[Samuel Tai]

If I understand the Dell documentation for the lifecycle controller, it's the Dell IPMI. TrueNAS has no issues with enabling IPMI, and this is in fact recommended for out-of-band access.

 

[Smokie]

If I understand the Dell documentation for the lifecycle controller, it's the Dell IPMI. TrueNAS has no issues with enabling IPMI, and this is in fact recommended for out-of-band access.

Thanks for the quick reply. I’ll enable it and see how things go.

 

[rvassar]

The lifecycle controller is a portion of the iDRAC / IPMI management system. It implements items like part replacement, matches firmware versions when parts are swapped, etc... So be aware, turning it on may result in unwanted changes. You should be able to go in to the BIOS configuration and change one of the boot options to get it to continue on exception without the LC enabled.

 

[Smokie]

The lifecycle controller is a portion of the iDRAC / IPMI management system. It implements items like part replacement, matches firmware versions when parts are swapped, etc... So be aware, turning it on may result in unwanted changes. You should be able to go in to the BIOS configuration and change one of the boot options to get it to continue on exception without the LC enabled.

Thanks for the reply. I never got a chance to look at it yet. Ill see what’s in the bios settings.