About Inventory

Click the section title to view a list of entity property names in your environment. By default, the list is hidden.

Once open, you can use the search field below the title to display a subset of properties. Note that the list doesn't include the internal properties that are generated by Virtana Service Observability.

This section contains queries that you create and save. You can only see this section when you have saved queries.

When you mark a query as public, it's also added to the Shared Queries list. Click any query card to display its results.

This section contains queries that are created and shared by you and others in your organization. You can only see this section when you have shared queries in your environment.

Click any query card to display its results.

This section contains the queries that Virtana provides. These templates are useful if you are new to using Inventory. Select a template to get started, customize it when viewing results, then save it as a query to use later or share with other users.

In the QUERIES tab of the panel, you can open your favorites and most recently used queries. Additionally, you can share, edit, copy, and delete your queries.

To display a different query, click the name of one of your queries in the My Queries folder, or open the Shared Queries folder and click the name of a shared query. You can also click the FAVORITES or RECENT tabs to find a query that you marked as a favorite or opened recently.

When you hover over an inventory query, you can click the Actions (⋮) menu to select different options, such as editing, deleting, or sharing the query, or setting it as your default user preference.

If you created organizers in Collection Zones, you can view them in the ORGANIZERS tab of the Inventory panel. When you click the ORGANIZERS tab, the Devices organizer is open by default, matching the results in the table. The table name and the URL also reflect the default query.

If you want to browse through your devices using organizers, click the Inventory panel again to open the tree-like structure of organizers. Expand each organizer to view the folders and devices.

Selecting a specific organizer or device updates the table and the query to reflect your selection. For example, select Locations, then select a specific location, such as Austin. The table and query update to show only those devices that have a location of Austin.

The table name and the URL also show that the query is now updated to just those results with a location of Austin.

Organizer types

Organizers are groupings to help you categorize and access monitored devices.

Devices are organized in the tree view by:

• Devices. A device class is an implicit organizer that defines the base set of properties that characterize a group of devices. A device may belong to only one device class.

• Groups. Groups let you organize multiple objects by their functions. For instance, you could use groups to sort objects by department.

• Systems. This organizer is specifically designed to group virtual setups, such as those found in network configurations or systems categorized by their functionality.

• Locations. Locations help you categorize devices based on where they’re physically located. A device can only have one location assigned, which can be broad like a city and state, or really specific like a particular server rack.

• Component Groups. Component groups allow for flexible organization of device components.

Note

Organizers are set up in Collection Zone (CZ). To learn more, see Organizers in CZ.

Using organizers in Inventory

Let’s take a closer look at the organizers in the Inventory panel.

Click the down arrow next to each organizer to expand it and view its included devices.

Each category or device class shows a count of devices within that category. For example, in the Devices organizer, the category of Storage appears with a “(5)” in parentheses. This number indicates that it contains five devices with a device class of “Storage” or starting with “Storage/”.

The icon next to the category or device class indicates the highest event severity among its contained devices. Only Critical (red), Error (orange), and Warning (yellow) severities are displayed. If a category shows with a green checkmark, then the category either has no devices with events or the category doesn’t contain any devices.

If you want to pinpoint the device or devices with a critical event, you can drill down into the folders. In this case, open Storage > EMC > Isilon. The critical event is associated with “isilon-9100” which you can open in the table to view the details.

If you select multiple devices or just one in your investigation, the table view is the same: one row per device and one column for each property. This table provides a snapshot of the included devices and their key details. To further refine your results, you can apply filters on the Device class, Name, and Location properties. This is useful when you have a large number of devices.

When finished, click the Settings menu to clear filters. Filters are not saved and only apply to your current search, so you can also clear the filters by navigating to a different category in Organizers.