Dell Lifecycle Controller 2 Update Manual

Recovery from ‘Lifecycle Controller
update required’

This Dell Technical White Paper provides steps to recover from
‘Lifecycle controller update required’ message, which the user might
see during POST, on the 12th generation servers of Dell.

Aruna Jayaprakash
Bala Gupta

Vinod P S

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March 2013 | Rev 1.0

Executive Summary

This whitepaper proposes the solutions to recover from the ‘Lifecycle Controller Update required’
state, which a user might encounter while using Lifecycle Controller on the 12th generation
servers of Dell.

Contents

Introduction ....................................................................................... 5

Recovery from LC Update required ............................................................ 6

Solution 1 .......................................................................................... 6

Solution 2 ......................................................................................... 11