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Using Inventory 8-1
Chapter 8
Using Inventory
This chapter describes the Active System Manager Inventory perspective that catalogs and defines the
inventory in your network environment. You can then use all of the Active System Manager perspectives
to access your environment inventory. For a complete description of how the Active System Manager
administrator builds the Active System Manager inventory, see Chapter 5, “Inventory Management.”
Introducing the Inventory Perspective
The Inventory perspective controls the layout of the user interface the Active System Manager software
uses to display information for your inventory, including which views are displayed and their positions
within the Active System Manager application. You can save the modifications you make to the Inventory
perspective as you create them, making your own custom user interface.
Table 8-1 outlines the default views available when you open the Inventory perspective; see Figure 8-1 for
a graphical representation of the views, which appear in tabular form.
Table 8-1 Inventory Perspective Elements
View or
Editor Name
View
or
Editor Description
Resource
Types
View Displays all of the resource types that have been added to the inventory. This view can
be filtered, grouped, and sorted to increase data accessibility.
Resource
Instances
View Displays all of the resource instances that have been added to the inventory. This view
can be filtered, grouped, and sorted to increase data accessibility, and includes the
resource availability calendar.
Outline View Lists the selected inventory resources in an outline format. It represents a high-level
summary of an open editor and allows you to navigate or find information.
Properties View Displays the properties for the selected session, Template, or configuration file. It is a set
of property values that are reflected in what you see in the editors.
Templates View Lists the available templates previously created. Supports built-in filters. From this view,
you can customize filters or group the Template organization by tree. For more
information, see Chapter 1, “Active System Manager Overview.”
Links View Lists the links between control equipment and managed equipment, or between two
pieces of managed equipment.