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You have now added devices to your network and created static and dynamic views. You are ready to use your device views to generate some reports.
The inventory management tasks let you collect and monitor your network inventory data so that you can plan upgrades and rollouts.
When planning for upgrades and rollouts, ask yourself these questions:
The following sections are presented in this chapter:
Scenario: After you populate the server with device inventory data, you want to schedule polling and collection of inventory data.
Use Schedule Collection to schedule the process that polls each managed device for information and updates the inventory data stored on your Essentials server. Then use Inventory Change Report to determine what changes have occurred in your network inventory over a specified period of time.
To view a list of changes to your inventory data, run the Inventory Change Report after each inventory collection. To maintain your inventory changes, print or save a copy of the report before the next scheduled inventory collection.
To set the parameters for your inventory polling schedule, perform the following steps:
Step 1 Select Admin > Inventory > Inventory Poller.
The Set Inventory Poller Schedule dialog box appears, displaying the currrent polling schedule.
Step 2 Set the new schedule as follows:
Step 3 Click Finish.
The new schedule appears.
To set the parameters for your inventory collection schedule, perform the following steps:
Step 1 Select Admin > Inventory > Schedule Collection.
The Set Inventory Collector Schedule dialog box appears. (See Figure 4-2.)
Step 2 Select the starting date and time. Alternatively, you can select Every to schedule the collection at specific intervals.
Step 3 Click Finish.
The schedule collection parameters are set.
Scenario: As the network administrator, you need to upgrade all Cisco IOS 10.3 routers on the network to Cisco IOS 11.1. To determine the scope of the work, you generate the appropriate reports.
To display inventory reports, perform the following procedure:
Step 1 Select Tasks > Inventory > Software Version Graph.
The Software Version Graph dialog box appears. (See Figure 4-3.)
Step 2 In the Views column, select System Views > All Routers.
The device selection dialog box is updated, listing the names of the managed devices that are routers.
Step 3 Click All to select all managed routers.
Step 4 Click Finish.
The Software Version Graph appears, showing the IOS versions installed on your managed routers. The count is the total number of devices on which each version is installed. The percentage column displays a bar graph and the numerical percentage of the devices for each software version. (See Figure 4-4.)
Step 5 To view other reports and graphs of the same device selection, select the desired report type from the Reports menu, then click Reports.
The selected report or graph appears.
Step 6 Print the report or graph and save it to a file.
Scenario: You want to see reports that display the hardware and software information about devices on your network. First, you want to know the types of chassis that reside on all routers. Then you want to know the software versions they are running.
To display hardware and software reports, perform the following procedure:
Step 1 Select Tasks > Inventory > Hardware Report.
The Hardware Report dialog box appears. (See Figure 4-5.)
Step 2 Select a view from the Views column.
The devices in the selected view appear in the Devices column.
Step 3 Select the appropriate devices or click All, then click Finish.
A tabular report of your selected devices appears.
Step 4 To sort the devices by chassis type, click the Type column heading.
Step 5 To see more detailed information about a particular device, click on the device name.
The Device Center appears, listing the various inventory, availability, and syslog analysis reports.
Step 6 To view the software version report, select Software Report in the Reports drop-down menu, then click Reports.
The Software Version Report for the group appears.
Step 7 Click the Version link in the Cisco Router Class table to sort by version number, then print or save the report.
Scenario: You want to see which of the devices on your network are compliant to the Year 2000.
To display devices compliant with the Year 2000, perform the following procedure:
Step 1 Select Tasks > Inventory > Year 2000 Report.
The Year 2000 Compliance Report dialog box appears.
Step 2 Click Update to update the Year 2000 Master Definition File from CCO.
The Year 2000 Definition File Status Update confimation screen shows whether the file was updated.
Step 3 Click Finish to display the Year 2000 Report.
The Year 2000 Compliance Report appears.
Step 4 To display details about a listed device class, click the device-class link. Click the up arrow to return up to the Compliance Summary at the top of the frame.
Scenario: You want to see device inventory data for all Catalyst switches.
For detailed device information, including system and chassis descriptions, chassis cards, interfaces, IOS image, and Flash information, you can generate a detailed device report.
To display a detailed device report, perform the following procedure:
Step 1 Select Tasks > Inventory > Detailed Device Report. The Detailed Device Report dialog box appears. (See Figure 4-8.)
Step 2 Select the devices you want to include in the report, then click Finish. The report appears.
Step 3 To go to the detail for a particular device, click on the device name at the top or scroll to the device name.
Step 4 To view module-interface correlation for router, Catalyst, or LS1010 class devices, click the Slot No value.
Step 5 To save the report to a CSV formatted file:
(a) Select CSV Format from the drop-down list box, then click Save As. A dialog box prompts you to pick an application or save the file.
(b) Click Save File. A dialog box supplies the default filename invDetailedDevInfo.pl. to save to.
(c) Change the default filename extension to .csv, then click Save.
Scenario: You want to see how many slots are available in each device class, then you want to view detailed capacity information about selected devices.
Step 1 Select Tasks > Inventory > Capacity Planning Report.
The Capacity Planning Report appears (See Figure 4-9.)
Step 2 Click on a slot link to see which devices have which number of available slots.
Posted: Thu Sep 30 10:21:23 PDT 1999
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