User's Manual

Exporting Hardware Inventory—Current or Factory-Shipped
Viewing Hardware Inventory—Current or Factory-Shipped
To view the currently-installed or factory-installed hardware components and their configuration details:
NOTE: For factory-shipped inventory, the state of few parameters for the installed components displays Unknown.
1. In the left pane, click Hardware Configuration.
2. In the right pane, click Hardware Inventory.
3. Click View Current Inventory or View Factory Shipped Inventory to view the current or factory shipped inventory.
NOTE: Lifecycle Controller does not provide the driver version for the RAID controller. To view the driver
version, use iDRAC7, OpenManage Server Administrator Storage Service, or any other third-party storage
management application.
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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 configuration, make sure
the following prerequisites are met:
• If you use the network share (shared folder), configure the Network Settings. For more information, see Setting
Up Lifecycle Controller.
• If you are storing the exported file in a USB drive, make sure that a USB drive is connected to the managed-
system.
To export the current or factory-shipped hardware inventory:
NOTE: For factory-shipped inventory, the state of few parameters for the installed components displays Unknown.
1. In the left pane, click Hardware Configuration.
2. In the right pane, click Hardware Inventory.
3. Click Export Current Inventory or Export Factory Shipped Hardware Inventory.
4. Select USB Drive if you are exporting the inventory log to a local USB drive; or selectNetwork Share, if you are
exporting the file to a shared folder on a network.
5. Click Test Network Connection to verify if Lifecycle Controller is able to connect to the IP address that you
provided. By default, it pings the Gateway IP, DNS server IP, and the host IP.
NOTE: Lifecycle Controller cannot ping to the domain name and does not display its IP address, if the DNS is
not able to resolve the domain name. Make sure that the DNS–related issue is resolved, and then retry.
6. Click Finish to export the inventory.
The HardwareInventory _<servicetag>_<timestamp>.xml or FactoryShippedHWInventory_<servicetag>.xml is
copied to the specified location. For the current inventory, the time stamp is in the format yyyy-mm-ddthh:mm:ss,
and ‘t’ indicates time.
NOTE: Lifecycle Controller does not provide the driver version for the RAID controller. To view the driver
version, use iDRAC7, OpenManage Server Administrator Storage Service, or any other third-party storage
management application.
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