To Change the Inventory of a Host or Group

This procedure explains how to create an inventory job to manage the installed components of hosts.

Before you begin a job on a Solaris machine, make sure the PKG deployment preferences are appropriate for your local needs. See Host Preferences – PKGs.

1. From the View menu, make sure Inventory is selected.

2. From the drop-down list on the tool bar, select a distribution-architecture.

   The Components list changes to display components of the selected distribution.

3. In the Hosts list, select groups or hosts.

4. In the Components list, select a component.

5. Assign an action to the selected component.

   Do one of the following:

   • From the tool bar, click the Required, Not Allowed, or Upgrade button.

   • Right-click the selected component and choose Required, Not Allowed, or Upgrade.

   • From the Components menu, choose Required, Not Allowed, or Upgrade.

     See Table 8–1 for more explanations of these options.

     The action-component setting appears in the Actions list.

6. Enter as many component actions as you want.

7. To make the inventory job applicable to hosts of different distributions:

   • To select specific components from different distributions, change the selection of the drop-down list of distributions in the tool bar. Find the relevant components and add the action settings to the Actions list.

   • To let Sun Update Connection – Enterprise find components from other distributions that are comparable to the ones you have in the Actions list, click the Multi Distribution button (see To Align Component Settings for Multiple Distributions).

8. Do one of the following:

   • From the tool bar, click the Run Job button.

   • Right-click in the Actions list and choose Run on Selected Hosts.

   • From the Actions menu, choose Run on Selected Hosts.

   The Run Job window opens.

9. Give the job a name and an optional, free-text description.

10. Select a mode for the job:

    • Deploy – Do the actions on the selected hosts

    • Simulate – Simulate the actions to estimate job time and full job actions

      (If you have restricted permissions to run simulation only jobs, these options are disabled. The job will be run in simulate mode.)

11. Click OK.

    The Run Job window closes. The job starts.