To Save the Inventory of a Host

Sun Update Connection – Enterprise provides a rollback feature. You can restore a managed host to a previous inventory, either full or filtered, as needed. The software automatically saves host inventories before executing a job to ensure that rollback is possible. You can also save inventories manually and give them meaningful names. Using such names makes it easier for you to choose the particular configuration to use.

1. From the Hosts list, right-click a host or a group and choose Save Inventory.

   The Save Inventory window opens.

2. (Optional) Specify the name of the saved inventory.

   The default file name uses this format name_yymmdd_hhmmss.

   name is either the name of a managed host or a group. yymmdd represents the date as a two-digit year, two-digit month, and two-digit day. hhmmss represents the time as a two-digit hour, two-digit minute, and two-digit second.

3. Click OK.

   The host inventory is saved and the Save Inventory window closes.

   If you selected a group, an inventory is saved for each managed host in the group.

4. View a list of saved inventories in the Inventory Comparison window.

   Right-click a managed host or group in the Hosts list, and then choose Compare Inventories.

5. Expand one of the Inventory drop-down lists to see the list of saved inventories for the selected host or group.