User's Manual

42 Remote Services Operations
7 The available software in the persistent storage is listed as the Available
Software Instance. The key property value of the instance, InstanceID
represented as DCIM: AVAILABLE :< COMPONENTTYPE> :<
COMPONENTID> :< Version> and the status value of this instance is
represented as “Available”. Current installed software instances are also
represented as available software instances.
8 Inventory instances provide input values for the update and rollback
operations. To perform the update operation, pick the InstanceID value
from the Installed Instance, DCIM: INSTALLED :< comptype> :<
compid> :< version>. For the rollback operation pick the InstanceID
Value from the Available instance,
DCIM:AVAILABLE:<comptype>:<compid>:<version>. You will not be
able to edit InstanceID values.
NOTE: If the "version string" property value of "Available Software Instance" is
equal to the "Installed Software Instance," then the InstanceID value of that
Available Software Instance should not be used for the rollback operation.
Important
• If Unified Server Configurator (USC) is being run on the system during
the inventory operation, only "Installed Instances" are returned.
• There may be
DCIM_SoftwareIdentity instances for hardware that
was previously installed and then removed still listed in the inventory as
"available."
Retrieving Hardware Inventory
Remote hardware configuration and inventory enables a WS-Management
client to use the Web services interface provided by iDRAC to instantly
retrieve the hardware inventory of a system. The inventory feature provides an
inventory of the installed hardware devices on the system. The Inventory and
configuration includes BIOS and UEFI attributes.
In addition, you can perform several hardware inventory tasks. Hardware
related information is cached on the Lifecycle Controller persistent storage
and is available to iDRAC and UEFI applications.
Enumerate the view classes of different system hardware like fans, power
supplies, iDRAC, video controllers, CPU, DIMMs and PCI/PCIe to view their
properties.
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