Exporting Inventory Management System Data

This chapter is intended for users who are familiar with Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) and the Structured Query Language (SQL), who want to develop their own customer applications to access information from the JUNOScope Inventory Management System. It is not meant to be a complete SQL reference. Refer to your applicable SQL guides for complete reference information.

This chapter describes how an external inventory application can connect to the JUNOScope Inventory Management System database and extract Juniper Networks device inventory information by way of an SQL interface. The JUNOScope software is bundled with MySQL, an open source relational database management system (RDBMS). (See Figure 12.) The query examples used in this chapter to extract inventory data are for MySQL.

Figure 12: Export Inventory Management System Data Topology Diagram

External inventory applications can extract inventory data, such as hardware, software, licensed features, and inventory scan events, from the JUNOScope Inventory Management System database. A unique username and password must be configured during the JUNOScope software installation to enable read-only access to the Inventory Management System database.

JUNOScope versions 7.4 and higher support extracting Inventory Management System database information to an external inventory application.

This chapter also describes the SQL database schema to facilitate data export, and also describes each database table.

A demo Inventory Management System database is bundled with the JUNOScope installation, which consists of tables populated with sample inventory data. You can develop scripts or programs to practice extracting data from the demonstration database without having to scan real inventory data into the production Inventory Management System database. For more information about the demo tables, see Demo Inventory Management System Database Tables .

This chapter includes the following topics:

• Inventory Management System Database Entity Relationship
• Enabling Access to the Inventory Management System SQL Interface
• Changing the Username and Password and Creating Additional Users for the Inventory Management System SQL Interface
• Inventory Management System Database Tables
• Demo Inventory Management System Database Tables
• Demo Inventory Management System Reports
• Connecting to the Inventory Management System SQL Interface
• Querying All Hardware Inventory Items
• Querying All Hardware Inventory Items of a Device
• Querying JUNOS Software and Package Inventory Items
• Querying All Licensed Feature Inventory Data
• Querying Inventory Events Data

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