Users Guide

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 A Network Share.

To verify if Lifecycle Controller is able to connect to the IP address that you entered, click Test

Network Connection. By default, Lifecycle Controller pings the Gateway IP, DNS server IP, and the

host IP.

NOTE: If the DNS is not able to resolve the domain name, Lifecycle Controller cannot ping the

domain name and cannot display the IP address. Make sure that the DNS issue is resolved, and

then retry the operation.

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.