Concept Guide
• View the overcurrent alert generated when a device exceeds the power requirement permitted by USB specication. Congure the
overcurrent alert to generate the WS-Events.
• View the inventory of the USB device such as FQDD, device description, protocol, vendor ID, product ID, and so on, when the device is
connected.
• Congure a server by using les stored on a USB drive that is inserted in to a USB port, which is monitored by an iDRAC. This
conguration allows creation of a job to track progress and logging the results in the Lifecycle log. The rules for discovering the Server
Conguration prole and naming are the same as DHCP provisioning. For more information, see http://en.community.dell.com/
techcenter/extras/m/white_papers/20440551/download.
NOTE: The USB conguration setting controls whether the conguration of the system is allowed from a USB drive. The default
setting only applies the conguration from the USB when the iDRAC user password and BIOS are still default.
For more information about the USB device management, see the USB device prole document available at en.community.dell.com/
techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/1906.dcim-library-prole.aspx.
Monitor
Using various Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services capabilities, you can monitor a system throughout its lifecycle. Current and factory-
shipped hardware inventory, Lifecycle Log, System Event Log, Firmware Inventory are some of the features that help you monitor the
system.
Collecting System Inventory
When Collect System Inventory On Restart (CSIOR) is set to enabled, Lifecycle Controller performs an inventory and collects the
conguration information for all hardware on every system restart. Additionally, the system inventory collection also detects any changes in
hardware. If the Part Replacement feature is enabled and CSIOR detects that the managed hardware is replaced, Lifecycle Controller
restores the previous conguration and rmware on the newly installed device based on the inventory collected during the previous system
restart.
The CSIOR setting is enabled by default and it can be disabled locally by using Lifecycle Controller or remotely with WS-MAN. You can
change the settings to one of the following:
• Enable — Hardware inventory and conguration information is collected on every system restart. Collecting system inventory may
aect the boot time depending on the hardware present in the system.
• Disable — Hardware inventory and conguration information will not be collected on every system restart. The usage of many features
depend 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 congure BIOS when CSIOR is disabled. Also,
system information reported from out-of-band interfaces such as WS-MAN 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 le 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 identies 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 conguration information is available for the following components:
• Power Supply Unit
Remote Services Features
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