Inventory Management System—Scan—Select Device and Time Dialog Box

Description

Use the Inventory Management System Scan—Select Device and Time dialog box to perform an inventory scan. A scan gathers a listing of all inventory items, such as:

• Events—Lists any changes or discrepancies found in an inventory scan as compared with the inventory data stored in the Junos Scope database.
• Hardware—Lists the hardware components installed in a device or a router chassis, including the part number and serial number.
• Licensing—Lists the feature licenses that have been installed on devices in the network, including the name of the licensed feature, number of licenses installed, number of licenses that are currently being used, and the number of licenses that are required to legally use the feature.
• Software—Lists the software components installed in a device, including the Junos OS version and software packages.

Inventory Management > Scan.

Permissions

Superuser, read-write

Elements

Steps In Task—Describes the basic steps to complete the inventory scan task.

Devices to Scan section—Lets you select a group or selected devices on which to scan inventory. The options include:

• Group option button and drop-down list box—(Default) Displays the groups from which you can perform an inventory scan. You can select only one group.

• Selected Devices button and drop-down list box—Displays the devices from which you can perform an inventory scan. You can select one or more devices. Control-click to select more than one device.

Select Time or Save Operation section—Lets you select when you want an inventory scan to occur: now or at a predefined time. It also lets you save a scan operation with a unique name.

• Now option button—(Default) Performs an inventory scan when you click Next and confirm.

• Save Operation as text box—Type a unique name for the scan operation you want to save. The saved scan operation appears in the Saved Operations page. To view the Saved Operations page, click Settings > Saved Operations.

• Selected Schedule option button—Lets you select a predefined Schedule table—Displays the schedules that have already been set up for Junos Scope operations. Click an option button to select a schedule when you want an inventory scan to occur.

• Schedule table—Displays the schedules that have already been set up for Junos Scope operations. Click an option button to select a schedule when you want an inventory scan to occur.

Comments text box—Type an optional comment about the inventory scan.

Next button—Displays the Scan—Confirm Selections dialog box.

Cancel button—Closes this dialog box and redisplays the Inventory Management menu.