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Change Inventory Schedule Figure 14.
Running an inventory job
An inventory job can either run on scheduled days/time as explained in the section Scheduling an
inventory job, or on demand when user clicks Run Now as shown in Figure 13 .
After the inventory job finishes, the result of inventory on each host is displayed in inventory job
details table with Successful or Failed status. The status is only for the last inventory job. The host
with Successful inventory status is ready to be managed in Dell Server Management tab corresponding
to that host.
Reasons for Inventory Failures
1. Any condition mentioned in the section Test Connection Profiles for Pre 12
th
Generation Host
Credentials failure is true. See section Compliance issues to troubleshoot inventory issues.
2. Any condition mentioned in the section Test Connection Profiles for 12
th
Generation Host
Credentials failure is true. See section Compliance issues to troubleshoot inventory issues.
3. An expired license or base license present for iDRAC on a 12
th
Generation host also fails inventory.
To see more details, view “iDRAC License” page under “Compliance” in Dell Management Center.
To troubleshoot inventory failures, check host and iDRAC Network connections.
Incorrect Error Messages for Inventory Failures
Following incorrect errors can be seen during inventory for a connection failure with iDRAC:
1. Exception specifying that OMSA is not installed.
2. iDRAC License failure, for Pre 12
th
Generation Host.