Creating and managing inventories

Create inventories to store AI use cases and other assets.

An inventory is where you store and view AI use cases and other assets. Depending on your governance requirements, you can store all use cases and assets in a single inventory, or create multiple inventories for your governance efforts. For example, you might create an inventory for each department or business unit in your organization.

Creating inventories

You must have the following IAM access to create and manage an inventory:

  • Service: watsonx.governance, Role: Administrator
  • Service: All IAM Account Management, Role: Under Platform Roles, you need the Viewer role or higher.

For more information, see Collaboration roles.

If there is no default inventory available for your account, you are prompted to create one. A default inventory is a platform catalog that provides a repository for inventory assets. It is required for governing external models or managing attachments and reports. For details, see Setting up the default inventory.

  1. Click Catalogs > Inventories from the navigation menu to see a list of existing inventories.
  2. Click New inventory.
  3. Type a name and an optional description.
  4. Select the Cloud Object Storage instance.
  5. Click Create.

Adding collaborators to an inventory

Inventories are meant to be collaborative so that multiple people that perform different roles can contribute to governance of key assets. To add collaborators to an inventory:

  1. From the settings menu for the inventory, click Set collaborators.
  2. Click Add collaborators to add collaborators individually, or by user group.
  3. Assign a role of Admin, Editor, or Viewer.
  4. Collaborators are added to the list for the inventory. You can remove or change the assigned access as needed.

Inventory roles

These roles apply to working with inventories.

  • Users with the Admin role can manage the inventory, add collaborators, manage access, and delete the inventory.
  • Users with the Editor role can create and edit AI uses cases in the inventory and assign assets to AI use cases.
  • Users with Viewer role can review AI use cases but cannot edit them or assign assets.