Users Guide

About view and export factory-shipped inventory
You can view information about the factory-installed hardware components and their conguration. You can export this information in an
XML format to a USB drive or a network share. The XML le 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.
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Viewing hardware inventory — current or factory shipped
Exporting hardware inventory — current or factory shipped
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 conguration details:
1 Start Lifecycle Controller. For more information, see Starting Lifecycle Controller.
2 In the left pane, click Hardware Conguration.
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 lter the components. The Fully Qualied Device Descriptor
(FQDD) property of a component is also listed along with other properties of a hardware component.
NOTE
: You can also lter data by a FQDD property of the hardware component. By default, the FQDD Device
Description property value is displayed for every hardware component listed.
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About view and export current inventory
About view and export factory-shipped inventory
Exporting hardware inventory — current or factory
shipped
Before exporting the currently installed or factory-installed hardware components and their conguration, make sure that the following
prerequisites are met:
• If you use the network share (shared folder), congure the Network Settings. For more information, see Conguring Network Settings
For A NIC.
• If you are storing the exported le 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 Conguration.
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