Dell The Importance of CSIOR in Hardware Inventory and Configuration

Easy Restore and Part Replacement will not contain the latest information when CSIOR is disabled. In- band tools such as OMSA and DTK cannot configure BIOS when CSIOR is disabled. Also, system information reported from out-of-band interfaces such as WS-MAN and RACADM may not have correct information.

Hardware inventory

The hardware inventory information is cached on the persistent storage of Lifecycle Controller and is available to iDRAC and UEFI applications. It is used to export the hardware inventory from Lifecycle Controller to a text file on a remote share.

You can remotely query the inventory of hardware components. Each hardware inventory class contains important attributes about the hardware components.

For example, the LastSystemInventoryTime attribute identifies the last time a Collect System Inventory on Restart (CSIOR) was run. It is an important attribute as it indicates how recently the inventory was updated.

Hardware inventory and configuration information is available for the following components:

•Power Supply Unit

•Fan

•Memory

•CPU

•iDRAC

•PCI Device

•Video Card

•vFlash SD Card

•NIC

•RAID

•BIOS

•System

•Sensor

Lifecycle log

Lifecycle logs contain entries for configuration and firmware updates of BIOS, Storage Controllers, LOMs, and add-in NIC cards, if supported. The Lifecycle log can be exported to a network share or saved to a USB drive. The Lifecycle Log is accessible through the iDRAC web interface, RACADM, and WS-MAN interface.

The Lifecycle log provides the following information:

•iDRAC, BIOS, NIC, and RAID configuration changes

•Logs of all the remote operations

•Firmware update history based on device, version, and date

•Error message IDs

•Host power events or reboots

•POST errors

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