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  3. Section X. Storage (Capacity)
  4. Configuration of Host inventory
  5. Host Inventory management

Host Inventory management

Now that you've set up the prerequisites, you'll use the steps described in this section for on-going Host Inventory Management. For additional prerequisite details:

See Host access requirements.

See Host Inventory configuration steps.

Once the prerequisite settings have been configured, a Host Discovery Policy must be created to enable the process of finding hosts in your environment and populating your inventory of hosts.

The Host Inventory Management processes include:

  • Configure and validate hosts in the inventory

  • Enable and manage on-going collection

Several tools facilitate Host Inventory Management, as described in the following sections:

  • See Configure host Discovery policies to populate the host Inventory.

  • See Execute and monitor host Discovery.

  • See Validate host connectivity.

  • See Host Inventory search and host Inventory export.

  • See Export the host Inventory.

  • See Configure and edit host probes.

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