Working with inventory

The System i® Navigator inventory functions can help you collect and manage various inventories on a regular basis and to store the data on the system that you selected as your central system.

For example, you can collect the inventory for users and groups, fixes, system values, hardware resources, software resources, service attributes, contact information, or network attributes. You may have other applications installed that allow you to collect lists of other types of resources.

You can either collect an inventory immediately or schedule it to be collected at a later time. You can schedule the inventory collection to occur daily, weekly, or monthly to keep your inventory current.

For more information about these and other Management Central tasks and topics, refer to the detailed task help that is available from the System i Navigator window. Click Help from the menu bar and select System i Navigator overview > Management Central.