Fabric elements inventory
The Fabric Elements view of the Fabric Services System inventory shows a complete list of all fabric elements across all fabrics in Fabric Services System. When you create a new fabric intent, you specify the number of nodes it should contain. These nodes are represented in the inventory. You can also add additional nodes to an existing fabric intent, which also appear in the inventory. The types nodes in the inventory list include:
- planned nodes
- created when you define a fabric intent, but do not yet have associated real-world hardware
- real-world hardware
- physical nodes that are present in the network, but are not associated with planned nodes
- associated nodes
- where a planned node and real-world hardware node are associated in the system, and configurations can be deployed to the physical node as part of a fabric intent
In addition to the overall inventory, each fabric intent has a dedicated inventory that is specific to that one fabric intent. The nodes in the fabric intent inventory list can include planned nodes and real-world hardware. This list is a subset of the full inventory maintained by the system; it shows only the nodes participating in the selected fabric intent.
From these inventories, you can view specific details about both the planned nodes and real hardware in your fabrics. The columns of the Fabric Elements page show information about each inventory item, such as status, serial numbers, MAC addresses, and so on.
For each element, you can access several methods to associate planned nodes to real-world hardware.