Inventory Summary

Use this page to view a summary of IT elements (such as computer systems, operating systems, and storage subsystems) that have been discovered and the date and time that the last inventory report was generated.

The Inventory Summary page shows six different groups of IT elements:
  • Hypervisors: Includes hypervisors such as HMC, IBM Flex System Manager, VMware, VIOS, etc.
  • Computer Systems: Includes physical computer systems.
  • Operating Systems: Includes operating systems such as AIX, Linux, etc. running on bare metal or in a virtualized environment.
  • Network Elements: Includes switches and routers.
  • Storage: Includes storage subsystems such as IBM XIV, IBM FlashSystem, EMC, and HP storage devices. In addition, it also includes tape devices.
  • Unknown IPs: Devices that might not be classified for reasons including the following:
    • Firewall blocking access to the device.
    • No credentials defined for the device. View the Authentication Status page (ToolsAuthentication Status) for information about IP addresses and associated credentials.
    • No sensor exists for the device type.
  • The Last generated row indicates the last time when the inventory summary job completed.
Each group displays the list of device types and the count for each of the device type.
  1. Click any of the device type hyperlinks to view the Inventory Summary Detail page.
  2. Select any of the devices in the list to view the Element information such as Context IP address, Manufacturer, Model, and Serial number.
    Note: For devices that are discovered by Level 1 Discovery through Nmap, but that do not have credentials to allow a Level 3 Discovery, no values are provided in the Element information pane.

The Last generated row indicates the last time when the inventory summary job is completed.

Click Download Inventory Summary to download a file containing the summary of the devices that are discovered.