Best Practices Tour for the Inventory Workspace

This Best Practices Tour describes how to use the Inventory workspace to determine which nodes are having problems.

There are important differences between Inventory workspace views:

• The (All Attributes) table views (Nodes (All Attributes), Interfaces (All Attributes), and IP Addresses (All Attributes)) show all columns (attributes) available for the object type. Configure these views to meet your current need.
• The other table views display a pre-determined subset of columns (attributes).
• NNMi provides Inventory views for the following objects: Nodes, Interfaces, IP Addresses, SNMP Agents, IP Subnets, Virtual LANs, Chassis, Cards, Ports, Node Sensors, Physical Sensors, Layer 2 Connections, MIB Variables, Chassis Redundancy Groups, Card Redundancy Groups, Router Redundancy Groups, Router Redundancy Members, Node Groups, and Interface Groups.

Right-click a column heading in these table views to fine-tune the displayed data, based on any of the following criteria:

• Select All (to select all rows in the table)
• Sort (Ascending or Descending)
• Filter (choices vary from column to column)
• Visibility (to show/hide each available column)

Use NNMi’s Filter option to group nodes without creating Node Groups. For example, filter all of the nodes in your Nodes (All Attributes) view by Device Vendor so that the view includes only Hewlett-Packard devices:

1. Right-click the Device Vendor column.
2. Select Filter → Create Filter.
3. Select equals.
4. Click Hewlett-Packard.

5. Click OK to save your changes.

   NNMi displays only those devices whose Device Vendor is Hewlett-Packard.