Inventory maintains a repository that records elements deployed on System Manager, including the runtime relationships. An element in the inventory refers to a single instance or clustered instance of a managed element. Inventory provides a mechanism for creating, modifying, searching, and deleting elements and the access point information from the repository. Inventory retrieves information about elements that are added or deleted from the repository.

Inventory integrates the adopting applications with the common console of System Manager. Through Inventory, elements can provide a link that redirects to the webpage of the element manager. Such links appear for only specific element types.

When you deploy an Avaya Aura® application by using Solution Deployment Manager, the system displays the application in the System Manager inventory.

To upgrade an Avaya Aura® application by using Solution Deployment Manager, you must add applications such as Communication Manager, Session Manager, and Branch Session Manager in the inventory.

Using Manage Elements, you can add elements in the following methods:

• Manually add elements to the System Manager inventory.

• Perform automatic inventory collection from the Discovery tab that automatically adds elements to the System Manager inventory.

• Add elements to the System Manager inventory in bulk from the More Actions > Import link.

Using Manage Elements you can:

• Add or modify elements

• Delete elements

• Assign and remove entries for elements

• Provide a certificate to an element

• Replace a certificate

• Import elements in bulk

• Configure SAl Gateway

• Configure Avaya Services Registration

• View certificate add status

From Release 8.1, System Manager displays a progress bar on the Manage Elements for ongoing Geographic Redundancy event notification status that are sent to the elements that are added on System Manager. When you hover on the status bar, the system displays the event name for which this notification is being sent out from System Manager to elements. You can use the More Actions > View Notification Status page to view the details of this notification.

For System Manager Geographic Redundancy:

• Manage or unmanage elements

• Get current status of elements

Manage Elements access

You require access to the Inventory > Manage Elements page on the System Manager web console. The role must have the following permissions assigned:

For resource type elements, all permissions in the Role Resource Type Actions section.

Bulk import

Inventory supports the creation and updation of elements by importing data from an XML file. You can import elements only through the graphical user interface.

Inventory provides the following configuration options for each import operation:

• Abort on first error: The system stops the import operation if any exception occurs.

• Continue processing other records: The system does not stop the import operation even if any exception occurs, and the import operation continues.

• Replace: Reimports all data for the element that you import. The replace function replaces an element and the related data with a new one.

• Merge: Merges the data of an element with the import data from an input XML file.

• Skip: Skips the import operation. As an administrator, you reimport the elements to recover from failures. If you reimport the same file to recover from failures, RTS does not overwrite any record that you have successfully added. Inventory continues to process other records from the file.

• Delete: Deletes an element.

• Schedule: Schedules the import of the element.