Owner's Manual

72 Using the System Viewer Utility

Viewing and Editing Hardware Configuration

This feature enables you to view and modify the current hardware

configuration of a system or a collection of systems and save them as a profile.

By default, the System Viewer Utility displays the Hardware Configuration

screen. Select Create New Profile to create a new profile, or Edit an Existing

Profile to edit an existing profile. The BIOS Attributes tab displays the BIOS

attributes and current settings of the system. The Boot Sequence tab displays

the system’s boot sequence information.

NOTE: Applying Boot sequence across target systems works only if the target

systems have the same, equal, or less number of boot devices as it appears on the

profile.

Creating a New Profile

To create a new profile:

In the

Hardware Configuration

screen, select

Create a New Profile

and

click

2 The BIOS Attributes tab displays the BIOS attributes and current

settings of the system. The Boot Sequence tab displays the boot

sequence information of the system.

In the

BIOS Attributes

tab, select the attributes to be included in your

profile by selecting the checkbox against each attribute. If you check

Select All

, all the attributes in the list are selected.

NOTE: You can leave the BIOS attributes in a profile unchecked. If you 

do not select any of the BIOS attributes in a profile, then only the boot

sequence information is considered when you import the profile.

Click

Save As Profile

to save the profile as an XML file.

Editing an Existing Profile

To edit an existing profile:

In the

Hardware Configuration

screen, select

Edit an Existing Profile

and click

Browse

to browse for the profile.

Select the profile that you want to edit and click

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