Work with inventory

Use iSeries™ Navigator inventory functions to collect and manage various inventories on a regular basis and to store the data on the iSeries server that you selected as your central system.

For example, you can collect the inventory for users and groups, fixes, system values, hardware resources, software resources, service attributes, contact information, or network attributes. You may have other applications installed that allow you to collect lists of other types of resources.

You can either collect an inventory immediately or schedule it to be collected at a later time. You can schedule the inventory collection to occur daily, weekly, or monthly to keep your inventory current.

For more information about these and other Management Central tasks and topics, refer to the detailed task help that is available from the iSeries Navigator window. Click Help from the menu bar and select iSeries Navigator overview > Management Central.

• View an inventory
  After you have collected the inventory, you can view the inventory list and right-click any item in the list to see the actions you can perform on the item.
• How to use inventories
  When you view an inventory on an endpoint system, you can right-click any item in the inventory list to see the actions you can perform on the item. Also by selecting the properties menu option for an inventory item (such as hardware) more information is displayed about that item.
• Run actions on an inventory
  You might have applications installed that define actions that you can run against the collected inventory. If you have installed an application program that offers an action, you will see that action in the Available actions list in the Run Actions window.
• Search a Management Central users and groups inventory
  Searching on users and groups provides you with a lot of flexibility to query the user and group inventory for the information you want.