System Inventory Manager Overview
ClusterPack
System Inventory Manager Overview
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Administrators Guide
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Users Guide
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Tool 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:
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You design the grouping of devices in the way that best suits your
environment.
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The GUI's buttons, tabs and menus provide quick access to:
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defining devices, and groups
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adding, configuring, and deleting devices as well as
groups, schedules and filters
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collecting data on a scheduled basis or on demand
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filtering of collected data to isolate specific data
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comparing collected inventory data for devices and
snapshots
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reviewing the wealth of information that is contained in
collected snapshots in an easy-to-use format
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viewing group, device, schedule, snapshot and filter
properties
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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.
