Loading inventory information from a file

File/Inventory Manager lets you load inventory information from inventory files that you created previously. You can use this feature to quickly load inventory information without having to poll it from the network devices. You can also use it to load inventory information for previous network configurations, or for devices that no longer appear on the network.

To load inventory information from a file:

1. From the File/Inventory Manager menu bar, choose File > Open Inventory File.

An Open File dialog box opens.

2. Navigate to the folder containing the inventory file you want to open.
   
   

   Note: By default, the Open File dialog box filters for files with the filename extension ".inv". If you have saved your inventory files using a different extension, replace ".inv" in the File name box with the actual filename extension.

   
   
3. Click Open.
4. If there is any inventory information already loaded in File/Inventory Manager, an alert box prompts you whether you want to keep the current inventory data.
5. Do one of the following:
• Click Yes to add the data in the file to the currently loaded inventory data. However, any data in the file about devices in the current inventory will be discarded, and will not overwrite data in the current inventory.
• Click No to discard all of the currently loaded inventory data and then load the inventory data from the file

File/Inventory Manager loads the inventory information from the file.

See also:

• Using inventory files