to accommodate new aspects of inventory presented. The SAL Gateway uses CIM information for the following tasks:
Display inventory reports
Export inventory reports
Transmit inventory information to the Secure Access Concentrator Core Server
Data elements in an inventory report
The SAL Gateway displays an inventory report in the CIM format. Even though the data element list in an inventory report is not identical for all types of managed devices, there is a common set that is applicable to all devices. This common set includes the following fields:
Solution Element identifier: A unique identifier in the form (xxx)xxx-xxxx where x is a digit
Product identifier: The unique 10-digit number used to uniquely identify a customer application
Model name: Name of the model of the managed device
Model version: Version number of the model of the managed device
Model patch: Patch number of the model of the managed device
Product IP address: The IP address of the managed device
System ID: The Product ID of the SAL Gateway that provides inventory service to the device
Spirit version: The version of SAL that was used for the inventory collection
Collection date: The date on which inventory was collected
Collection checksum: The unique checksum of the inventory information collected
Users can define other fields in the CIM file such as, Avaya Product, OS Version and
Customer Defined Attributes. These attributes are beyond the common set and are represented under corresponding CIM classes defined within the SAL CIM model.
Inventory diagnostics
To align itself with the inventory functionality, the SAL Gateway provides two forms of diagnostics output:
A basic connectivity test that establishes a TCP socket connection to managed devices
A more advanced test that uses the onboard credentials of the gateway to attempt a device connection by means of the SAL inventory system
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