Users Guide

Inventory and Logs

Use the inventory and log features to:

• Retrieve and export current and factory-shipped inventory

• Retrieve and export lifecycle log

• Reset the system

Retrieving Hardware Inventory

Using Remote Services, you can instantly retrieve the hardware inventory of a system. The inventory has a list of all the

hardware devices installed on the system.

The hardware inventory information is cached on the Lifecycle Controller persistent storage and is available to iDRAC

and UEFI applications.

To retrieve the hardware inventory, you must enumerate the view classes of different system hardware such as fans,

power supplies, iDRAC, video controllers, CPU, DIMMs and PCI/PCIe to view their properties.

For more information on different hardware profiles, see the Hardware Inventory Profiles.

For more information on the easy-to-use names of the hardware components, see Easy-to-use System Component

Names.

Exporting Current Hardware Inventory

• To export the current hardware inventory to an XML file, invoke the ExportHWInventory() method on the

DCIM_LCService class.

• To store a copy of the factory defaults of a managed node, invoke the ExportFactoryConfiguration() method on

the DCIM_LCService class.

NOTE: Store the XML file on an USB device or network share, or both the locations.

Lifecycle Log

Lifecycle log shows the following information:

• iDRAC configuration changes

• Logs of all remote write operations and user authentication errors

• Firmware update history based on device, version, and date.

• BIOS and NIC configuration changes.

• RAID configuration changes.

• Error message IDs. For more information, see error message registry at support.dell.com/manuals.

• Events (update and configuration only) based on severity, category, and date.

NOTE: The details of the configuration changes are not shown.

• Customer comments based on date.