Inventory scout

Inventory scout surveys the system for Vital Product Data (VPD).

Inventory scout commands are provided by the IBMinvscout package. The commands that are typically included are:

invscout: Write the current system VPD to a VPD survey file.

The utilities described here are supported in the following Linux® distributions and virtualized environments:

Table 1. Support for inventory scout utilities
Utility	Linux distributions running on a PowerVM® partition on any level of Power® processor
invscout	All current versions of the following distributions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

For Linux distributions currently supported on Power systems, see Linux on Power overview.

The commands that are provided by this package, and their features and usage, might vary by distribution and release. Consult the man pages on your system for the most accurate description of their features and usage. For more information about how to list and display the man pages for commands that are provided by this package, see Displaying package man pages.