Dell Lifecycle Controller GUI v2.30.30.30 User's Guide

Exporting hardware inventory — current or factory shipped

Before exporting the currently installed or factory-installed hardware components and their configuration, make sure that the following prerequisites are met:

If you use the network share (shared folder), configure the Network Settings. For more information, see Configuring Network Settings For A NIC.
If you are storing the exported file on a USB drive, make sure that a USB drive is connected to the managed system.

To export the current or factory-shipped hardware inventory:

Start Lifecycle Controller. For more information, see Starting Lifecycle Controller.
In the left pane, click Hardware Configuration .
In the right pane, click Hardware Inventory .
Click Export Current Inventory or Export Factory Shipped Hardware Inventory.
If you are exporting the inventory to a local USB drive, select USB Drive. If you are exporting the file to a shared folder on a network, select Network Share . For more information, see Exporting Hardware Inventory To A USB Drive or Exporting Hardware Inventory To A Network Share. To verify that using Lifecycle Controller, you can connect to the IP address, click Test Network Connection. Using Lifecycle Controller you can ping the Gateway IP, DNS server IP, and the host IP.
- NOTE: If the domain name is not resolved in the DNS, then you cannot use Lifecycle Controller to ping the domain name and view the IP address. Make sure that the DNS issue is resolved, and then retry.
Click Finish to export the inventory. The HardwareInventory _<servicetag>_<timestamp>.xml or FactoryShippedHWInventory_<servicetag>.xml file is copied to the specified location. For the current inventory, the time stamp is in the format yyyy-mm-ddthh:mm:ss, where ‘t’ indicates time.
- NOTE: For factory-shipped inventory, the status of few parameters for the installed components is displayed as Unknown.