Users Guide

For more information about the easy-to-use names of the hardware components, see Easy-to-use

System Component Names.

NOTE: View and export factory-shipped inventory feature is grayed out if the Repurpose or Retire

System option is selected, which permanently deletes the factory-shipped inventory.

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Viewing hardware inventory — current or factory shipped

Exporting hardware inventory — current or factory shipped

Viewing hardware inventory — current or factory shipped

NOTE: For factory-shipped inventory, the status of few parameters for the installed components is

displayed as Unknown.

To view the currently installed or factory-installed hardware components and their configuration details:

1. Start Lifecycle Controller. For more information, see Starting Lifecycle Controller.

2. In the left pane, click Hardware Configuration.

3. In the right pane, click Hardware Inventory.

4. To view the current- or factory-shipped inventory, click View Current Inventory or View Factory

Shipped Inventory

respectively.

A list of hardware components are displayed on the View Current Hardware Inventory page.

NOTE: Lifecycle Controller does not provide the driver version for the RAID controller. To view

the driver version, use iDRAC, OpenManage Server Administrator Storage Service, or any other

third-party storage management application.

5. Select from the Filter by Hardware Component drop-down menu to filter the components. The

Fully Qualified Device Descriptor (FQDD) property of a component is also listed along with other

properties of a hardware component.

NOTE: You can also filter data by a FQDD property of the hardware component. By default, the

FQDD Device Description property value is displayed for every hardware component listed.