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Inventory Overview

The Inventory section acts as the central repository for all network assets, hardware definitions, and operational services managed by Avalon.

To ensure clarity and scalability, the inventory is organized into four logical categories:

  • Infrastructure The live representation of your physical and logical topology. This includes Sites, Devices, Redundancy Groups, and the provisioning status of new equipment ZTP.
  • Network Services The configurations and services deployed on top of the infrastructure, such as VLANs and Custom Services.
  • Access & Policies Security and identity management components, including Radius Management and User definitions.
  • Hardware Catalog The global library of templates required to model equipment. It contains Vendors, Device Families, Device Models, Device Images, and Interface Lists.

Resource Scoping Rules

Unlike Administration settings, the visibility of data in the Inventory depends on the resource type. It is crucial to distinguish between Global Definitions (Templates) and Tenant Data (Instances).

Global Resources

These resources are shared across the entire Avalon instance. They act as a library available to all tenants, regardless of the one currently selected.

  • Hardware Catalog: Vendors, Device Families, Device Models, Device Images, Interfaces Lists.
  • Service Templates: The definitions of Custom Service Templates are global (though their application is local).

Single-Tenant Resources

These resources represent the instantiation of data specific to your environment. They are strictly isolated to the currently selected Tenant.

  • Infrastructure: Sites, Devices, Redundancy Groups.
  • Services & Policies: VLANs, Radius Servers, Users.
  • Service Instances: The actual deployment of a Custom Service on a specific device.

Prerequisites for Onboarding

While AutoDiscovery automatically populates the asset list (Devices, Sites), manual operations often rely on the Hardware Catalog.

For example, before manually adding a "Static" device or provisioning a "ZTP" device, its specific Vendor and Model must exist in the Global catalog.

Roadmap: IPAM Integration

As Avalon expands to include comprehensive IP Address Management (IPAM) capabilities, new modules (Subnets, Aggregates, VRFs) will seamlessly integrate into the Network Services section.