Users Guide

Monitor

Using Lifecycle Controller, you can monitor the hardware inventory and events of a server throughout its

life cycle.

Hardware inventory view and export

Lifecycle Controller provides the following wizards to manage the system inventory:

• View Current Inventory

• Export Current Inventory

• View Factory Shipped Inventory

• Export Factory Shipped Inventory

• Collect System Inventory on Restart

About view and export current inventory

You can view information about the currently installed hardware components that are internal to the

system chassis and the configuration for each component. All the currently installed hardware

components such as fans, PCI devices, NICs, DIMMs, PSU, and their properties and values are displayed.

You can export this information to a compressed XML file and then to a USB drive or network share. The

XML file is saved in the following format: HardwareInventory_<servicetag>_<timestamp>.xml.

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

System Component Names.

NOTE: Incorrect inventory data is displayed or exported after performing a system erase. For

viewing the correct inventory data, see Viewing and Exporting Current Inventory After Resetting

Lifecycle Controller.