Inventory Explorer

Manage your inventory by checking information about software license, software maintenance, hardware, hardware services and more.

Inventory Explorer - Description and access
Inventory Explorer gathers all relevant software license and software maintenance for IBM Power and IBM Storage as well as hardware inventory records and hardware services for IBM Power, IBM Storage and IBM Z.
Inventory Explorer - Normal and "Big profile" mode
Inventory Explorer - Advanced search
Here you can browse the inventory by selecting a search type (depending on the user type) and providing one or more values. A results table is displayed showing matching records and also informs on whether the related customer number is already in your profile or not.
Inventory Explorer - Records ownership validation check
A major change has been introduced in the way ESS looks up installed inventory:
Inventory Explorer - Content tabs
Inventory explorer - Tab: Software license
Inventory explorer - Tab: Software maintenance
Inventory explorer - Tab: Hardware
Inventory Explorer - Tab: Hardware services
Inventory Explorer - Summary view
Summary provides a consolidated view of the configuration (features, quantity and description) and several additional relevant values (e.g. system number, expiration dates for active software maintenance, service contracts and hardware warranty) presented on the other tabs for records which do not fail the ownership validation check:
Inventory explorer - extra details available for each record
Inventory Explorer - Software products list
Software products for which you can find information in Inventory Explorer.

Parent topic: My Inventory