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Manage inventory sources

Add inventory sources

  1. On the Configuration menu, click Inventory source.

  2. Click Add Inventory.

    The Inventory Source dialog box appears.

  3. Type a Source name of the data source.

    The Source name is a name added by customers to identify each source they configure.

  4. In the Database name list, select the name of the Snow Inventory database that the source will gather data from. For Snow Inventory 6, this is normally SnowInventory.

  5. Type a Site name. The site name must be unique within the Snow Inventory database.

    The Site name is a value that can be used to restrict what data is gathered based on the inventory site or sites that are configured. Use % as a wildcard character to include multiple sites that are related.

  6. In the Organization list, do one of the following:

    • If users or computers from this inventory source should be automatically connected to an organization node, select the node in the list.

    • If users and computers should not be connected to a node, select <Do not set> .

  7. Select Enable data updates.

    Note

    If not selected, the Data Update Job will not check for updates.

  8. Click OK to save the changes and close the Inventory Source dialog box.

Edit inventory sources

Note

You cannot edit Database name and Site name. If you need to change one or both of these names, you must delete the inventory source and then create a new one with the same settings but with the new database name and/or site name.

  1. On the Configuration menu, click Inventory source.

  2. In the Inventory source list, select the source you want to edit.

  3. Click Edit.

  4. In the Inventory Source dialog box, make the changes and then click OK to save.

Delete inventory sources

  1. On the Configuration menu, click Inventory source.

  2. In the Inventory source list, select the source you want to delete.

  3. Click Delete.

  4. Click OK to confirm the deletion.

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