Concept Guide

Collecting system inventory
When Collect System Inventory On Restart (CSIOR) is set to enabled, Lifecycle Controller performs an inventory and collects
the configuration information for all hardware on every system restart. Also, 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 configuration and firmware 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 RACADM,
WS-MAN, or iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish. You can change the settings to one of the following:
● Enable—Hardware inventory and configuration information is collected on every system restart. Collecting system inventory
may affect the boot time depending on the hardware present in the system.
● Disable—Hardware inventory and configuration information is not collected on every system restart. The usage of many
features depends 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 configure BIOS when
CSIOR is disabled. Also, system information reported from out-of-band interfaces such as WS-MAN, iDRAC RESTful API
with Redfish, 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 file 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 identifies 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 configuration information is available for the following components:
● Power Supply Unit
● Fan
● Memory
● CPU
● iDRAC
● PCI Device
● Video Card
● vFlash SD Card
● NIC
● RAID
● BIOS
● System
● Sensor
Lifecycle log
Lifecycle logs contain entries for configuration and firmware updates of BIOS, Storage Controllers, LOMs, and add-in NIC cards,
if supported. The Lifecycle log can be exported to a network share or saved to a USB drive. The Lifecycle Log is accessible
through the iDRAC web interface, RACADM iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish, and WS-MAN interface.
The Lifecycle log provides the following information:
● iDRAC, BIOS, NIC, and RAID configuration change
● Logs of all the remote operations
● Firmware update history based on device, version, and date
● Error message IDs
● Host power events or reboots
● POST errors
● User login to any iDRAC interface
For more information about Event and Error Messages, see the Dell Event Message Reference Guide available at www.dell.com/
support/manuals
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