User's Manual

Note While the Inventory perspective is the first place to start working with inventory, you can also use
other perspectives to accomplish the same tasks. Because you will typically use inventory when you
are in the Template or Session perspective, you can open Resource Types and Resource Instances
views from these perspectives, as well as from within the Inventory perspective.
Note The area in the Resource Instances view to the right of the actual instance data is the Resource
Availability Calendar, which displays information regarding which resource instances are
allocated for specific sessions. For more information on how to use the information displayed in this
area of the view, see the “Using the Resource Allocation Calendar” section on page 8-11.
Accessing Inventory
Using Inventory 8-5
The Active System Manager application provides four methods for accessing your environment inventory:
• Group By feature—Allows you to group your resource type in a hierarchical fashion. You can change
the way the Active System Manager software displays the resource type and resource instance
information by clicking the Group By icon displayed in the top-right portion of the associated views.
For more information, see the “Accessing Resources via the Group By Dialog Box” section on
page 8-7, and the “Grouping” section on page 1-15.
• Filters feature—You use the Filters feature (Filter icon) to specify filters that forces the Active System
Manager application to only display the resource type and resource instance information that you
require within the associated views. Built-in filters are available and some are enabled by default.
Figure 8-3 Filters > Managed Equipment Filter Example
For more information about filtering, see the “Accessing Resources via the Filters Dialog Box” section
on page 8-8, and the “Filtering” section on page 1-12.
• Search feature—The Active System Manager Search feature is simple toolbar option used to locate
search categories, including resource types, resource instances, links, templates, configurations, and
sessions that match a single character string. For more information, see the “Using the Search Function”
section on page 8-11.