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Managing the Network Inventory
Overview
The Network Inventory view of NIM lists the managed devices in ISM Provision.
Managed devices are the devices that exist in your network and whose configurations
are synchronized with the configurations stored in the ISM Provision server. See the
section, "Managed and Unmanaged Devices", in Chapter 4, "Network Provisioning",
for more information.
From the Network Inventory view you can add existing devices into the inventory and
begin managing them. You can modify the parameters of the devices in the inventory,
and delete devices from the inventory, thereby making them into unmanaged devices
(their configuration, displayed in the Network Provision view, is no longer
synchronized with the actual configuration on the device). You can also export and
import device inventory information from files.
In many cases, the first thing you will do with ISM Provision is to capture the
configuration of your existing network and begin managing it. This group of devices
managed by ISM Provision is referred to as the network inventory. Once a device is
added to the network inventory, it appears as an entry in the list of managed devices
shown in the Network Inventory view.
When a device is newly added to the network inventory, ISM Provision queries the
device, loads its configuration into the server, and can display the configuration in the
Network Provision view of NIM. Since the Network Provision view allows you to plan
and test configuration changes and new device configurations, the devices displayed in
the Network Provision view do not necessarily exist in your network. In contrast, the
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