Hello out there my name is Koda and I am a senior engineer for Dell EMC supporting many of our enterprise platform systems. In this video I'll be going over viewing and exporting the Lifecycle logs within the Lifecycle Controller or LCC. As you see here, we've entered the Lifecycle controller and on our list to the left we see Lifecycle Log. So, we will click that. And we have three options here.
Now I'm going to do this just a bit out of order. I'm going to start from the bottom and add a work note and I'm only doing this, so we can see that note when we go up to view the Lifecycle Log History. So, we will click add a work note. Now we'll do something simple into your note and click ok And this can take a moment, but it shouldn't take too long. Okay work note successfully logged. We will click ok and let's move up to View Lifecycle Log History.
Now this process here can take a few minutes as you can see. The Lifecycle Controller can be a bit sluggish as it performs certain tasks, such as this one. Once we get in there, we'll be able to filter by a few different categories as well as do a keyword search. If they're, if we're looking through these logs within the LCC or if it's exported, we should be able to do a search for keywords and find specific logs. So, this should take just a moment longer.
All right here we are and as you can see, we've got a drop down at the top to filter by category right off the bat. We can see this is my test note here, the very top blog entry. So, let's take a look at a few different categories. Let's just click on audit, as you can see here, under category these are only the audit log entries. Let's look at configuration real quickly and we can see we've got some new devices added.
Let's go ahead and go back to all and as I mentioned, we can do a keyword search. So, let's enter something simple, let's enter CPU. You want to type it and then press ENTER to apply the filter, and as you can see, we've got a few entries here for CPU. Now to clear our filter we will simply delete what's there and then press ENTER. And now we've got all of our logs. Okay let's go ahead and click Back.
And lastly, we will export the Lifecycle log. Okay we've got two options here, we can export these logs to a locally attached USB drive, I don't have anything attached, so what we'll do is use a second option and export these logs to a network share. Now I've got SIFS selected by default and I do have a Windows Share Windows Server set up with a shared folder so we will use that. Now we'll want to do this using UNC path.
So, we will type //my IP address to the share server. The folder's name is called share. And I've created a test user for our purposes. Enter my password and I also created a folder called logs within the share folder. If I scroll down, we can test the network connection. Great connection test was successful, so I can access that share folder. And let's click finish. This can take a moment or two while it compiles that Lifecycle log and it should export it to your shared folder.
It will be exported as a .xml.gz, so it's a new zip file format. You can use any extracting tool to extract the contents from that folder. Great, looks like this was successful. It was copied to the network share, so we will click Ok. And it's brought me back to the home screen for the LCC. That's all we have for this video. I hope this was helpful and thank you for watching.
