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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 iDRAC 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.
• Create configurations for FC HBA cards and save them as a profile. For more information, see
Configuring FC HBA cards 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 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.
• Compare an FC HBA configuration profile against a target system. For more information, see
Comparing FC HBA profile against a target 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.
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