Inventory Change report

To run an Inventory Change report

The Inventory Change report uses inventory snapshots of both root Views and Subviews to identify changes in your managed network. This report also displays device details.

This report consists of three parts:

• inventory change summary:
  • the report breakdown can be by Manufacturer, Model or Type. The first page provides an
    overview of the network inventory, with the summary chart and table providing a breakdown
    by type of the number of additions, deletions and modifications.
• inventory change summary tables:
  • the report breakdown can be by Manufacturer, Model or Type. The summary tables provide details of each managed object, including its modification state (which is also a hyperlink to the inventory change details tables (see below)). The row background color indicates the type of change:
    • white - no change.
    • green - an addition.
    • amber - a modification.
    • red - a deletion.
      

      Name	Description
      Device Type	name of the device type, e.g. VPN, Load Balancer, Managed Host. When reporting on multiple device types, this report groups devices by type, in alphabetical order.
      Device Name	resolved device name or the IP address.
      IP Address	device's management IP address.
      System Name	device description.
      Mgmt Level	indicates the level of management of the device: Full. Full (Mgmt Port Only) - ENA v17.0 P08 upwards. Full (No Ports). Basic. Ping Only. None.
      Certified	when set to Yes, indicates the device is fully certified by Entuity. When set to Unknown, the device dataset is derived by Entuity (from proliferate -g).
      Modules	number of modules associated with the device.
      Ports	number of ports associated with the device.
      Modification	hyperlink to the inventory change breakdown detail table for the object.

• inventory change details tables:
  • these provide a device-by-device breakdown of the start and end values of comparison properties. The column background color indicates the type of change:
    
    • white - no change.
    • green - an addition.
    • amber - a modification.
    • red - a deletion.

      Name	Description
      Device Name	resolved device name or the IP address.
      IP Address	device's management IP address.
      Location	derived from sysLocation.
      Description	device description.
      Type	name of the device type, e.g. VPN, Load Balancer, Managed Host. When reporting on multiple device types, this report groups devices by type in alphabetical order.
      Manufacturer	device manufacturer.
      Model	device model.
      Serial No	manufacturer's serial number for the managed object, i.e. device or module.
      Version	version of the software installed to the managed object, i.e. device or module.
      First Seen	date and time the device was first taken under management.
      Server on	name of the Entuity server. When reporting on multiple servers, this report groups inventory by the managing Entuity server.
      Port Count	number of ports associated with the device.
      Module Count	number of modules associated with the device.

       

To run an Inventory Change report:

1. In the Main Menu, click Reports.
2. This will open the Reports page. Click Inventory Reports.
3. This will open the Inventory Reports page. Click Inventory Change.
4. This will open the Inventory Change Options page.
5. If you want to reuse previously saved report values, select it in the Use saved values dropdown field.
6. Specify the format of the report in the Report format field.
7. Specify the View against which the report is to be run in the Please select a View dropdown field. From ENA v18.0 P06 upwards, you can drag Views into this field from the Drop Box.
8. Tick the Show changes only box to include changes to the managed inventory between the two inventory snapshots.
9. Specify the starting inventory snapshot in the Start inventory dropdown field.
10. Specify the second inventory snapshot for which the report identifies changes in the End inventory dropdown field.
11. Specify the attribute (either Manufacturer, Model or Type) by which you want to order the report in the Break down by dropdown field.
12. ENA v17.0 P08 upwards: Specify the time zone to which you want the reporting period to apply. By default, this is set to None, which means that the time zone of the host/consolidation server is used.
13. Click Save to save your report values, Run to run immediately, or click Cancel.