Owner's Manual
80 Using The System Viewer Utility
• View the hardware inventory for the system. For more information, see
Viewing The Hardware Inventory For The System.
NOTE: You can only edit the hardware configuration and RAID configuration
profiles directly, and not edit the system configurations directly.
• Perform tasks to restore a platform that includes:
– Exporting the system profile to an external location.
– Importing the saved system profile from an external location.
– Configuring Part Replacement properties for the system.
For more information, see Platform Restore For A System.
Viewing And Editing BIOS Configuration
This feature enables you to view and modify the current BIOS configuration
of a system or a collection of systems and save them as a profile.
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
1
In
BIOS Configuration
, select
Create a New Profile
and click
Next
.
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.
3
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.
4
Click
Save As Profile
to save the profile as an .XML file.
Editing An Existing Profile
1
In the
BIOS Configuration
screen, select
Edit an Existing Profile
, and
click
Browse
to browse for the profile.
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