Exchange node inventories


The management server keeps an inventory of the policies and packages that are currently installed on the node. HPOM provides commands that enable you to exchange node inventory data between HPOM for Windows management servers. Before you exchange node inventories, you should consider exchanging node configurations and policies. When you import inventory data on a management server, the management server ignores and associations between unknown nodes, policies, and packages.

Node inventory exchange is an alternative to inventory synchronization, which creates jobs to retrieve inventory data from each node over the network.

To exchange node inventories

  1. In the console tree, right-click the node group that you want to export node inventories for, and then click Properties.
  2. Select the Unique ID, right-click it, and then click Copy. HP defined node groups have readable IDs, for example Root_Nodes. Other node groups have numerical IDs, for example {89BE12EB-5FB7-4CA5-ABAC-D540B63CFEE3}. The braces are part of the ID.

  3. Open a command prompt and type the command:

    ovpmutil cfg ppn dnl <filename.xml> /p <unique ID>

    Press Enter. The command generates a file with the name you specify. For example, to export node inventories for a node group with the ID {89BE12EB-5FB7-4CA5-ABAC-D540B63CFEE3} to the file inventory.xml in the current folder, type:

    ovpmutil cfg ppn dnl inventory.xml /p {89BE12EB-5FB7-4CA5-ABAC-D540B63CFEE3}

  4. Copy the file to your other HPOM for Windows management server.

  5. Open a command prompt and type the command:

    ovpmutil cfg ppn upl <filename.xml>

    For example to import node inventories from the file inventory.xml in the current folder, type:

    ovpmutil cfg ppn upl inventory.xml

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