Inventory change notification

An Inventory Change notification is emitted by the API to report the addition or removal of a managed object to/from the current inventory of resources that are being managed by the HMC. This occurs when managed resources are created or deleted, but also may occur in other situations, such as when the HMC reestablishes its inventory of (already-existing) managed resources upon a restart.

For some kinds of managed objects, an Inventory Change notification is also emitted by the API to report the addition or removal of an element of a managed object. Such notifications do not occur for all elements, but rather only when specifically described in the documentation for a class of managed object.

Because an Inventory Change notification may be generated more than once for the same conceptual object, these notifications cannot be interpreted as designating a resource creation action.

In addition to the common fields, the following are also included:

Field name Type Description
action String Enum The value "add" when the object has been added to the inventory or for initial events, or "remove" when it is being removed.