Use the Bare Metal Orchestrator inventory to monitor the health of devices in your network.
Bare Metal Orchestrator discovers devices and collects hardware and firmware inventory details.
On the left-side menu, click Inventory to view devices that are discovered at the selected site. You can:
- View inventory information for the compute devices and their components.
- View inventory information for switches.
- View device status, power state, and health.
- Add or remove columns. Click the three dots on the upper right of the Inventory table to display the Show Columns dialog. Select or clear the columns that you want to display. See Add or remove columns for more information.
- Sort inventory data for quick visualization and understanding.
- Perform various actions on the devices. For example, you can power on or off compute nodes or delete them.
- Pre-scan discovered devices to ensure that these devices meet specified blueprints.
You can select one of the following from the View drop-down list:
- Identification: This is the default view. It displays inventory details for the discovered devices. A Filter drop-down list lets you filter information that is displayed on the Inventory page. Click More Filters to view additional filters. Click Less Filters to view fewer filters. See Filter and search device inventory for steps on viewing filtered results on the Inventory page.
- Resource Planning (compute only): Displays hardware information of the compute nodes.
The Actions drop-down list provides access to various actions that you can perform on the selected devices:
- For a list of available actions and inventory details for compute nodes, see Manage compute nodes. To view inventory details for compute nodes, see View compute inventory.
- For a list of available actions and inventory details for switches, see Manage switches. To view inventory details for switches, see View switch inventory.