Viewing and managing system inventory

Procedure

1. Navigate to the Red Hat Insights > RHEL > Inventory page.
2. Click the system you want to view.
3. You will notice that you are in the General information tab. Remain in that tab and scroll to the bottom of the page.
4. Reference the Data collectors card at the bottom of the page. There you will see the data collector(s) Name, Status and Last upload details.

Step 1: Create a custom role

1. Navigate to User Access > Roles and click Create role. The Create Role wizard displays.
2. Set the role name and description and click Next.
3. Add the inventory:hosts permissions and click Next.

Step 2: Add the custom role to an RBAC group

1. Once you create the custom role, navigate to User Access > Groups and click Create Group to create a User Access (RBAC) group.
2. Name the group, select the new custom role, and select the users to whom you want to assign this role.

Procedure

1. Create a request for the export service, or use this sample request code:

   {
   	“name”: “Inventory Export”,
   	“format”: “json”,
   	“sources”: [
   	   {
   		“application”: “urn:redhat:application:inventory”,
   		“resource”: “urn:redhat:application:inventory:export:systems”,
                }
            ]
   }

   Note

   You can request CSV or JSON as your export format.

2. In the Hybrid Cloud Console, navigate to the API documentation: https://console.redhat.com/docs/api/export .

   Note

   You can use the API documentation to experiment and run queries against the API before writing your own custom client and/or use the APIs in your automation.

3. Select POST /export.
4. Remove the existing sample code in the Request Body window and paste the request code into the window.
5. Click Execute. This request initiates the export process. The curl request and server response appear, along with the result codes for the POST operation.
6. Look for the id field in the server response. Copy and save the string value for id. Use this value for id in your requests.
7. Optional. Issue the GET /exports request. The server returns the curl request, request URL, and response codes.
8. Optional. To request the status of the export request, issue the GET /exports/id/status request.
9. When the export has completed, issue the GET /exports/id request, with the ID string that you copied in place of id. The server returns a link to download the export file (the payload).
10. Click Download File. When the download completes, a notification message appears in your browser.
11. Click the browser notification to locate the downloaded zip file.

Procedure

1. Navigate to https://github.com/jeromemarc/insights-inventory-export .
2. Download the inventory-export.yml playbook.
3. Run the playbook. The playbook does everything from requesting the export id, to requesting download status, to requesting the downloaded payload.

Procedure

1. On the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console main page, click RHEL in the Red Hat Insights tile.
2. In the left navigation bar, click Inventory > System Configuration > Staleness and Deletion. The Staleness and Deletion page displays the current settings for system staleness, system stale warning, and system deletion for conventional systems.
3. Optional: To manage the staleness and configuration settings for edge (immutable) systems, select the Immutable (OSTree) tab.
4. To change these values, click Edit. The drop-down arrows next to each value are now enabled.

5. Click the arrow next to the value that you want to change and then select a new value.

   Note

   The system stale warning value must be less than the system deletion value.

6. Optional: To revert to the default values for the organization, click Reset.

7. Click Save to save your changes.

   Note

   If you set the system deletion maximum time to less than the current maximum time, systems that have been stale for longer than then new maximum time will be deleted.

Procedure

1. On the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console, navigate to Inventory. The list of systems in your inventory appears.
2. Locate the system that you want to add.
3. Click the More options icon (⋮) on the far right side of the system listing.
4. Select Add to Workspace from the pop-up menu. The Add to Workspace dialog box displays.
5. Click Create a new Workspace. The Create Workspace dialog box displays.
6. Type a name for the new group in the Name field and click Create.

Procedure

1. On the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console, navigate to Inventory.
2. Click the Inventory drop-down menu and select Workspaces. The Workspaces page displays.
3. Select the Workspace that contains the systems that you want to remove.
4. Locate the system that you want to remove from the Workspace.
5. Click the More options icon (⋮) on the far right side of the system listing.
6. Select Remove from Workspace from the pop-up menu. The Remove from Workspace? dialog box displays.
7. Optional: To remove multiple systems from the Workspace at once, select each system you want to remove, and then select Remove from Workspace from the More options menu (the options icon (⋮)) in the toolbar.
8. Click Remove.

Procedure

1. On the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console, navigate to Inventory.
2. Click the Inventory drop-down menu and select Systems. The Systems page displays.
3. Locate the system that you want to remove from the Workspace.
4. Click the More options icon (⋮) on the far right side of the system listing.

5. Select Remove from Workspace from the pop-up menu. The Remove from Workspace? dialog box displays.

   Note

   If any of the systems you selected do not belong to any Workspace, the Remove from Workspace option remains disabled. Make sure that you select only systems that belong to the Workspace.

6. Optional: To remove multiple systems from the Workspace, select each system you want to remove, and then select Remove from Workspace from the More options (the options icon (⋮)) menu.
7. Click Remove.