Users Guide

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.
Exporting hardware inventory — current or
factory shipped
Before exporting the currently installed or factory-installed hardware components and their configuration, make sure that the following
prerequisites are met:
• If you use the network share (shared folder), configure the Network Settings. For more information, see Configuring Network for a
NIC.
• If you are storing the exported file on a USB drive, make sure that a USB drive is connected to the managed system.
To export the current or factory-shipped hardware inventory:
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. Click Export Current Inventory or Export Factory Shipped Hardware Inventory.
5. If you are exporting the inventory to a local USB drive, select USB Drive. If you are exporting the file to a shared folder on a network,
select Network Share.
For more information, see Exporting hardware inventory to a USB drive or Exporting hardware inventory to network share
To verify that using Lifecycle Controller, you can connect to the IP address, click Test Network Connection. Using Lifecycle
Controller you can ping the Gateway IP, DNS server IP, and the host IP.
NOTE:
If the domain name is not resolved in the DNS, then you cannot use Lifecycle Controller to ping the domain
name and view the IP address. Make sure that the DNS issue is resolved, and then retry.
6. Click Finish to export the inventory.
The HardwareInventory _<servicetag>_<timestamp>.xml or FactoryShippedHWInventory_<servicetag>.xml file is copied to
the specified location. For the current inventory, the time stamp is in the format
yyyy-mm-ddthh:mm:ss, where ‘t’ indicates time.
NOTE:
For factory-shipped inventory, the status of few parameters for the installed components is displayed as
Unknown.
Exporting hardware inventory to a USB drive
To export hardware-related inventory to a USB drive:
1. From the Select Device drop-down menu, select a USB drive.
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