Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration Version 3.3 for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager User's 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 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.