Concept Guide

• Enable—Hardware inventory and configuration information is collected on every system restart. Collecting system inventory may
affect the boot time depending on the hardware present in the system.
• Disable—Hardware inventory and configuration information is not collected on every system restart. The usage of many features
depends on the inventory information updates. Features such as Easy Restore and Part Replacement may not contain the latest
information when CSIOR is disabled. In-band tools such as OMSA and DTK cannot configure BIOS when CSIOR is disabled. Also,
system information reported from out-of-band interfaces such as WS-MAN, iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish, and RACADM may not
have correct information.
Hardware inventory
The hardware inventory information is cached on the persistent storage of Lifecycle Controller and is available to iDRAC and UEFI
applications. It is used to export the hardware inventory from Lifecycle Controller to a text file on a remote share.
You can remotely query the inventory of hardware components. Each hardware inventory class contains important attributes about the
hardware components.
For example, the LastSystemInventoryTime attribute identifies the last time a Collect System Inventory on Restart (CSIOR) was
run. It is an important attribute as it indicates how recently the inventory was updated.
Hardware inventory and configuration information is available for the following components:
• Power Supply Unit
• Fan
• Memory
• CPU
• iDRAC
• PCI Device
• Video Card
• vFlash SD Card
• NIC
• RAID
• BIOS
• System
• Sensor
Lifecycle log
Lifecycle logs contain entries for configuration and firmware updates of BIOS, Storage Controllers, LOMs, and add-in NIC cards, if
supported. The Lifecycle log can be exported to a network share or saved to a USB drive. The Lifecycle Log is accessible through the
iDRAC web interface, RACADM iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish, and WS-MAN interface.
The Lifecycle log provides the following information:
• iDRAC, BIOS, NIC, and RAID configuration change
• Logs of all the remote operations
• Firmware update history based on device, version, and date
• Error message IDs
• Host power events or reboots
• POST errors
• User login to any iDRAC interface
For more information about Event and Error Messages, see the Dell Event Message Reference Guide available at www.dell.com/support/
manuals
System event log
The Lifecycle Log contains events related to system, storage devices, network devices, firmware updates, configuration changes, license
messages, and so on. However, the system events are also available as a separate log called the System Event Log (SEL).
When a system event occurs on a managed system, it is recorded in the SEL. The same SEL entries are also available in the Lifecycle Log.
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