The Inventory Page Display and Operations

The Oracle Enterprise Communications Platform (Oracle ECP) Inventory page displays controls for managing the hardware and Mobile Network Operators (MNO) you use with Oracle ECP. You can customize the display to show the types of information you want to see.

From the Inventory tab, you can choose to see the Devices Inventory and Edge Nodes Inventory pages by selecting the one you want from the drop-down list at the top of the page. The pages contain the following controls.

Unique Controls and Actions

The following controls are unique to the Inventory page.

Actions—Click to see a list of actions you can apply to a selection from the Inventory table. The actions are unique to the inventory type.

Inventory Table—View a list of your inventory according to the type you select. When you select a row, which represents one piece of hardware, you can apply actions from the Actions drop-down list to the selected hardware depending on conditions. To see more information about a piece of hardware, click its Name, which is a link to The IoT Device Details Page page or The Edge Node Details Page, depending on the inventory table displayed.

Default Filter Chips—Oracle ECP provides a set of unique filter chips per inventory type (located below the Search field), which are based on a sub-set of the column headers. To refine your search, click one or more filter chips to move them into the Search field. After you put a filter chip into the Search field you can further refine your search by clicking the filter chip to see a list of additional filters. You can add multiple filter chips to Search and you can add multiple additional filters per chip type. You can remove filter chips from the search bar when you no longer want the filter applied, but you cannot delete them from Oracle ECP. The default filter chips always remain available on the page. See About Device Filter Chips and About Edge Node Filter Chips.

Temporary Filter Chips—When you want to search for a piece of information that is not supported by one of the default filter chips, you can create a temporary filter chip. For example, type a serial number or some other value from the inventory table in the Search field and press Enter. Oracle ECP creates a temporary filter chip for that serial number and displays the corresponding results. You can use only one temporary filter chip at a time, but you can combine the temporary filter chip with one or more of the default filter chips. Temporary filter chips are dynamic. Oracle ECP deletes the temporary filter chip when you leave the Inventory page, switch to a different page, or remove the filter chip from Search. You must add the temporary filter chip again the next time you want to search for the specified data. Temporary filter chips do not display any additional parameters.

Although you can create multiple temporary filter chips, Oracle ECP supports using only the first one created. For example, if you create a temporary filter chip for Serial Number first and then another for MNO, Oracle ECP uses the temporary filter chip for Serial Number because you created it first.

Note:

Oracle recommends that you do not create a temporary filter chip for a column designated with one of the default filter chips.
Quick Multi-select—Tables within the Inventory tab that display checkboxes next to each row support quick multi-select. Users can select a continuous range of items by holding down the Shift key and clicking, enabling efficient bulk actions. To do that:
  1. Click the checkbox next to the first item to select it.
  2. Hold down the Shift key on your keyboard.
  3. While holding the Shift key, scroll if necessary, and click on the row of the last desired item in the range.

    Note:

    Do not click the link in the first column, as this will take you to the item’s details page.
  4. All items between the first and last selection will be selected.
  5. Proceed to perform the required bulk action using the available buttons at the top of the table.

Note:

This Shift-click selection method is available in all Inventory tab tables that support row checkboxes, even if a "Select All" option is not visible.

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