System Inventory Manager Overview - HP 1032 Manual

System Inventory Manager Overview

System Inventory Manager Overview
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3.3.1 What is System Inventory Manager?
3.3.2 How to invoke Systems Inventory Manager
3.3.1 What is System Inventory Manager?
The Systems Inventory Manager application is a tool that allows you to easily collect, store
and manage inventory and configuration information for the Compute Nodes in the HP-UX
Itanium 2 cluster. The Systems Inventory Manager GUI in conjunction with the underlying
Desktop Management Interface (DMI) provides a easy web-based interface.
Some of the key features of the tool are:
You design the grouping of devices in the way that best suits your
environment.
The GUI's buttons, tabs and menus provide quick access to:
The scheduling facility allows you to define when Systems Inventory
Manager retrieves inventory information, dynamically and on pre-
determined schedules that suit your needs. Data can be collected for
individual devices and for each defined group.
ClusterPack
defining devices, and groups
adding, configuring, and deleting devices as well as
groups, schedules and filters
collecting data on a scheduled basis or on demand
filtering of collected data to isolate specific data
comparing collected inventory data for devices and
snapshots
reviewing the wealth of information that is contained in
collected snapshots in an easy-to-use format
viewing group, device, schedule, snapshot and filter
properties