Software inventory information

The PMAC GUI provides a software inventory report on the discovered software in the inventory of servers under the control of PMAC. This section describes the report and provides a procedure for accessing it.

Software inventory lists the applications on the platform for discovered TPD servers and provides data on the application's version, function, IP address, and identity information. The software inventory option also provides data on the operating system. The user can also view the software inventory for PMAC, for servers without applications, and for servers without an operating system.

To retrieve application data, the application must be configured to make the software inventory data available to PMAC.

While the discovery process is in-progress (for example, after the PMAC server has been rebooted or restarted), the information in the report will be incomplete. The following variations may occur:

• If the software discovery is complete but the hardware discovery is not, a server would show up in the software inventory report with blank identity information. Once the hardware in the bay of the enclosure is discovered, the identity information data is populated.
• If the hardware discovery is complete but the software discovery is not, the only data provided for a server is the identity information. During software discovery an IPv6 address for the server may appear for a moment. When the software discovery completes, the IPv4 address replaces the IPv6 address and any additional discovered software data is provided.