Reloading the inventory

File/Inventory Manager lets you refresh the information in the window with inventory information polled from the network devices. You can use this feature to load any updated information that took effect since you opened File/Inventory Manager.

To reload the inventory:

1. On the File/Inventory Manager toolbar, click Reload.

Or, from the File/Inventory Manager menu bar, choose File > Reload.

An alert box opens to ask how you want to continue.

2. Do one of the following:
• Click Reload with discovery of topology to rediscover network topology and reload the Optivity Switch Manager topology map and all of the submanagers.
• Click Reload File/Inventory Manager only to just reload File/Inventory Manager. Optivity Switch Manager polls devices for file and inventory information, but does not perform a full network topology discovery.
• Click Cancel to abandon the reload operation.
  
  

  Note: Reloading just File/Inventory Manager takes less time than reloading with topology discovery. However, if there are any changes in network topology, it might result in discrepancies between the information in File/Inventory Manager and the information on the topology map. Such discrepancies might cause incorrect operation when you perform operations (such as highlighting the network map) that involve interactions between the submanagers and the topology map. If you observe such incorrect operation, reload the network map. For more information, see Rediscovering the network map.

  
  

Optivity Switch Manager reloads topology information from the network devices, and refreshes the File/Inventory Manager window with it.

See also:

• Working with File/Inventory Manager