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The Validate Inventory

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  List BIOS Information. Lists the BIOS information for all the nodes in the cluster.
  
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  List Environment Variables. Examples of environment variables are the number of processors, the operating system path, and the location of temporary folders.
  
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  List Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters. Typically, a host bus adapter (HBA) is a PCI card that connects the server to the storage. These support Fibre Channel.
  
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  List iSCSI Host Bus Adapters. Typically, an iSCSI host bus adapter is a PCI card that connects the server to the storage.
  
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  List Memory Information. Lists the memory configuration for each node in the cluster.
  
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  List Operating System Information. Gathers information about the operating system configuration on the node. Items included are operating system version, service pack level, installation date, Windows directory location, page file size and location, boot device, and other operating system information.
  
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  List Plug and Play Devices. Lists all the Plug and Play (PnP) devices on each node.
  
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  List Running Processes. Lists all the processes running on each node in the cluster.
  
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  List SAS Host Bus Adapters. Typically, a host bus adapter is a PCI card that connects the server to the storage. These support Serial Attached SCSI (SAS).
  
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  List Services Information. Lists all services installed on all nodes in the failover cluster.
  
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  List Software Updates. Lists any updates that have been installed on the servers such as hot fixes.
  
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  List System Drivers. Lists all the drivers that are installed on each node of the cluster.
  

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  List System Information. The system information includes the following:
  

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  Computer name.
  
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  Manufacturer, model, and type.
  
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  Account Name of the person who ran the validation tests.
  
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  Domain that the computer is in.
  
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  Time zone and daylight-saving setting (determines whether the clock is adjusted for daylight-saving changes).
  
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  Number of processors.
  
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  List Unsigned Drivers: You can use this to help correct issues uncovered by "Validate All Drivers Signed.”