Users Guide

Managing device inventory
NOTE: To perform any tasks on OpenManage Enterprise, you must have necessary role-based user privileges and scope-
based operational access to the devices. See Role and scope based access control in OpenManage Enterprise on page 15.
By clicking OpenManage Enterprise > Monitor > Inventory, you can generate a device inventory report to better manage
your data center, reduce maintenance, maintain minimum stock, and reduce operational costs. By using the Inventory Schedules
feature in OpenManage Enterprise, you can schedule jobs to run at predefined time, and then generate reports. You can
schedule inventory jobs on the 12th generation and later PowerEdge servers, networking devices, PowerEdge chassis,
EqualLogic arrays, Compellent Arrays, and PowerVault devices.
On this page, you can create, edit, run, stop, or delete inventory schedules. A list of existing inventory schedule jobs is displayed.
● NAME: The inventory schedule name.
● SCHEDULE: Indicates if the job is scheduled to run now or later.
● LAST RUN: Indicates the time the job was last run.
● STATUS: Indicates if the job is running, completed, or failed.
NOTE: On the Discovery and Inventory Schedules pages, the status of a scheduled job is identified by Queued in the
STATUS column. However, the same status is indicated as Scheduled on the Jobs page.
To preview a job information, click the row corresponding to the job. The right pane displays the job data and the target groups
associated with the inventory task. To view information about the job, click View Details. The Job Details page displays more
information. See View an individual job information on page 127.
Related tasks
Run an inventory job now on page 70
Stop an inventory job on page 70
Delete an inventory job on page 71
Create an inventory job on page 69
Topics:
• Create an inventory job
• Run an inventory job now
• Stop an inventory job
• Delete an inventory job
• Edit an inventory schedule job
Create an inventory job
The following steps describes how you can initiate the inventory collection on the discovered groups.
NOTE:
● To perform any tasks on OpenManage Enterprise, you must have necessary role-based user privileges and scope-based
operational access to the devices. See Role and scope based access control in OpenManage Enterprise on page 15.
● Inventory collection on chassis storage sleds is not supported in OpenManage Enterprise if they are managed via chassis
device management.
1. To initiate the Inventory wizard, do one of the following:
a. On the All Devices page (OpenManage Enterprise > Devices), select a group on the left pane and from Inventory
drop-down menu click Run Inventory on Group.
b. On the Inventory page (OpenManage Enterprise > Monitor > Inventory), click Create.
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