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 BIOS

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 iDRAC 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.