Unlike the Inventory Items List view (covered in another article), the Inventory Model Management view provides a tiled list of models, with the count or information on specific inventory items nowhere to be seen on this page. Instead, this portion of the inventory section of Sonar deals uniquely with creating and managing the Inventory Models in your instance. In this article, we'll be looking at navigating around this page, how to create a new Inventory Model, how to manage and modify an existing Inventory Model, and how to add new items to each model.

The inventory Model Management view is accessible by:

1. Click on Inventory to open the module
2. Click on Manage Items

The Inventory Model Management View

The Inventory Model view displays a series of tiled images for all models added to the instance. If no custom image is supplied, a non-specific default image will be used, but the model's given name, manufacturer, and type will still be displayed underneath the generic image. We'll start by exploring the process behind adding a new Inventory Model.

Adding a New Model

For information on adding Inventory Models to your Sonar instance, refer to the appropriate documentation for each Model type:

1. Network Inventory: How-to & Usage Guide
2. Segmentable Inventory: How-to & Usage Guide
3. Tracking and Using Consumable Inventory

Modifying a model

Once you've created a model, you have the option of waiting until later to complete the various additional steps. You can do that by going to the model and expanding the dropdown, as pictured below:

The Model allows you to:

• Add new inventory items
• Modify Deployment Types
• Modify Inventory Model fields (such as adding new ones or removing existing ones)
• Modify the Provisioning method
• Edit the details of the Model
• Add Vendors that supply this model, for Purchase Orders
• Set a Global Minimum or Maximum item amount, for Purchase Orders
• Set a Minimum or Maximum amount of inventory for specific Inventory Locations
• Updated the attached display image
• Delete the model entirely

Using Minimum and Maximums

Setting minimum and maximums allows your Sonar instance to manage Purchase Orders more efficiently, whether for use with reorder reports or simple monitoring. Min/Max values are set on a per-model basis, then on a per-location basis. When defining your values, the modal will change to reflect whether you're setting Global values, which apply uniquely to Purchase Orders, or Inventory Location values.

Global Min/Max

Inventory location Min/Max

Searching and filtering

Unlike the Inventory List view, the searching and filtering within the model management view doesn't give you a series of filters. The filtering of Inventory Models is limited to a series of check boxes, allowing you to narrow down the visible results to various manufacturers, and various categories of the model: