IT Asset Management (Cloud)
A discovery and inventory
action is a part of a discovery and inventory rule that determines what actions to perform
on the identified targets when the rule runs. You must create at least one action to
create a rule.
To create an action:
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Go to the Discovery and Inventory Rules page.
The Discovery and Inventory Rules page
appears.
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Click the Actions tab.
The list of existing actions appears.
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Either:
- Click Create an action to create an entirely new
action
- Click the copy icon (
) on any existing action to clone that action as
a starting point for making your changes (for more details, see Copying or Modifying an Action).
The Create an Action page appears.
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Enter (or edit) the name and description for the action.
Names must be unique, and the description should help you recognize the action
in a later listing.
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The Action type determines what controls are available
on the remainder of the screen, and therefore what tasks can be included in this
action. You can select any of:
- Discovery and inventory — Shows a complete
set of options for combining discovery and inventory-gathering tasks in the
one action (see Discovery and Inventory Actions)
- Discovery only — Shows only those options
for discovery, and inventory-gathering settings are excluded from this
action (see Discovery Only Actions)
- Inventory only — Shows inventory-gathering
settings, and excludes any settings for new discoveries; so that the
inventory-gathering tasks apply only to target devices that have been
previously discovered using other rules/actions (see Inventory Only Actions).
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Select the required discovery or inventory tasks that form part of this action.
Note: You cannot predict the order of execution of inventory-gathering actions
during a discovery and inventory rule execution, because multiple
inventory-gathering actions, like gathering Oracle inventory and gathering
VMware inventory, can run in parallel.
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Click Create.
The action now appears in the list of actions. You can edit, copy, or delete an
existing action by clicking the corresponding icon on the action list.Tip: You can delete an action only if it is not being used in a rule.
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