Owner's Manual

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Setting up change tracking is an administrative task. You must first use the Inventory Config screen
to select a type of inventory, then configure
Change Tracking for that type. Select the attributes to
track in the
Change Tracking screen. You no longer must re-start the application server after having
selected which attributes to track before any changes become visible.
If you do not have the correct authentication or permission to access the devices for which you
want to perform change tracking, your system may be unable to retrieve attribute values and track
changes may fail. The application server may display “unable to retrieve attribute” errors in such
cases.
The listed attributes (the left column) vary, depending on the inventory type you selected in
Inventory Config on page 174. Check one of the following three columns to change the tracking for
the selected attribute:
-
Track Change —Check to enable change tracking. This produces a log of changes for the selected
inventory type and attribute. These typically appear in an Change Tracking editor panel.
Figure 11-10. Change Tracking
This history enumerates the changes Attribute Name, when it was Changed on, who it was
Changed by and the Old Value in the rows of its display .
- Notify Change —Emit Change Notification which can trigger an action.
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Report Change —Save Changes for Reports, applicable if you have the Reports module installed.
Click
Save , and the changes in presentation, custom fields and tracking are preserved in the
database for the selected inventory entity type.
Topology Presentation
This screen configures the presentation of some entities you can display in Topology views (see
Chapter 21, Topology Views).