Inventory maintains a repository that records elements deployed on System Manager, including their runtime relationships. An element in the Inventory refers to a single 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 products with the common console of System Manager. Through Inventory, element type can provide a link that can redirect to the Web page of the element manager. System Manager Web Console displays the links for only specific element types.

Inventory supports the creation and updation of application systems by importing data from an XML file. You can import elements only through the Web console.