Users Guide
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Using Lifecycle Controller, you can monitor the hardware inventory and events of a server throughout its life cycle.
Topics:
• Hardware inventory view and export
• About view and export current inventory
• About view and export factory-shipped inventory
• Viewing hardware inventory — current or factory shipped
• Exporting hardware inventory — current or factory shipped
• Viewing or exporting hardware inventory after part replacement
• Viewing or exporting current inventory after resetting Lifecycle Controller
• Lifecycle Controller log
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.
Related tasks
Viewing hardware inventory — current or factory shipped
Exporting hardware inventory — current or factory shipped
Viewing or exporting hardware inventory after part replacement
About view and export factory-shipped inventory
You can view information about the factory-installed hardware components and their configuration. You can export this information in an
XML format to a USB drive or a network share. The XML file is saved in this format: FactoryShippedHWInventory_<servicetag>.xml.
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.
Related tasks
Viewing hardware inventory — current or factory shipped
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