Users Guide

Using The System Viewer Utility

This chapter describes the operations that you can perform with the System Viewer Utility.

You can use the System Viewer Utility to:

• View and edit the hardware configuration. For more information, see “Viewing and Editing Hardware Configuration”.

• View and edit the RAID configuration. For more information, see Viewing and Configuring RAID.

• Create and edit Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller configuration profiles for your system. For more

information, see Configuring Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller Profiles for a System.

• Create configurations for network adapters such as NICs and CNAs and save them to a profile. For more information,

see Configuring NICs and CNAs for a System.

• View the current firmware inventory, compare it against a baseline, and update the firmware. For more information,

see Comparing and Updating the Firmware Inventory.

• Compare the hardware configuration profiles. For more information, see Comparing Hardware Configuration Profile.

• View and export the Lifecycle Controller logs. For more information, see Viewing Lifecycle Controller Logs.

• 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 with respect to restoring 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.

• This release of Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration is licensed and the licensing is based on entitlement. The

licenses available for this release of Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration are 50, 200, and unlimited nodes license.

Without a license, you can discover the servers, but a valid license is required to use the features available in this

release of Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration. Also, with a valid license, you cannot configure the servers more

then the number specified in the license. However, if you have an unlimited nodes license, then you can discover

and configure any number of servers.

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.