Clear Lifecycle Logs

Mitko,

To clear the Lifecycle Log you will need to access the iDrac and go to Log, clear log. Or to access Open manage from the OS. You would then select the log and then hit the Clear button from the bottom of the page.

Let me know how it goes.

Chris , clear log button is only for Logs tab . Next to it is the Lifecycle Log tab, and there is no clear button .

Chris , thank you very much for the answer .

The Lifecycle Log is designed to be persistent, so there isn't an option to easily clear it. The only way to actually clear it is to do a reset on the LC and iDrac.  Now doing this you will reset the iDRAC to factory defaults, and delete all iDRAC user credentials and IP address configuration settings. So you would need to reconfigure the iDrac locally, as you would lose the configuration to access remotely. It also deletes all the lifecycle logs that contain the history of all the change events, firmware upgrades, and user comments.

If you are still interested in clearing the log, resetting the LC this is how -

You would find it in the Lifecycle Controller under Hardware Config - Delete Config and Reset Defaults - then place a check in RESET LIFECYCLE CONTROLLER and click Finish. It will power off and you will have to manually power it back on.

  
  
  
  
  
 
   
 
    
 
     
 
      


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There is no option to delete the LC logs unless you execute the LCWipe method on the iDRAC. 

 
     
 
    
 
   
 
  

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/f/4469/t/19512181.aspx

IMHO it looks like there is actually a way to clear LC logs, however for some reason Dell does not want to make this information available to public. I do not quite understand why, but if that is not the case could you please prove step-by-step instructions how to do it. It would be nice if they were in the similar format like in Mondeep`s post about exporting them mentioned above.

Thank you. 

Hi mcsbench,

Although there is a way we can clear the LCLogs, it is part of a bigger process and is not a standalone process. That process is called LC Wipe, which basically resets iDRAC and LC to factory default settings. When we reset the system to factory settings, it will clear all the settings which might have been configured on the iDRAC and LC for that system, including the network settings. So,after that, you will have to reconfigure iDRAC locally to have OOB management capabilities. The best option would be from F2>iDRAC Settings. Dell-Chris has mentioned the steps to do it from LC. If you would like to clear the LC logs, this is the winrm command to do so -

winrm i LCWipe schemas.dell.com/.../DCIM_LCService -u:root -p:calvin -r:https://idrac_ip/wsman -SkipCNcheck -SkipCAcheck -encoding:utf-8 -a:basic

Replace your idrac_ip in the command above.

Do plan ahead on how to configure the iDRAC locally after performing this.

Regards,

Dell-Mondeep

Hi Mondeep,

Thank you very much for your help and info provided. 

Although Chris has mentioned about iDrac reset which can be done by doing F2 > iDrac > Reset iDrac to default, that unfortunately wont clear LC logs. Just to make it clear I do not mind to wipe the Lifecycle Controller and iDRAC configs.. etc

Regards,

MCSbench

On IDrac 8 Enterprises on 13th gneration, we see predict failure report for Disk4.  As per Dell support this is false positive, but we could clear the log as well. so we loose the global status alert for IDrac through SNMP. Anyone can help?

Thanks for the update, But  I see yet global status remarked as non critical warning, even I cleared system event Log. I dont see Lifecycler logs in previous IDrac 6. Now I just monitored LCD status instead of Global status

You can clear System Event Log to remove global status.

I have a couple of servers R720 with error on front LCD about Dive 0 failed. Since then Dive 0 no longer even exists in the server (physically been removed, the slot is EMPTY, array that was there was removed)

But I simply can not get the display to be back to normal

I can see the errors in LC log, but no way to clear it (which is really stupid IMO)

Seb

Can you clear SEL logs and check LCD status

Makes no difference to the LCD, as the error was never in SEL log but only in LC

The LCD cleared when fully disconnected power cords (not just power down the unit)

Seb