Using Cenovel
Practical guidance for the people discovering equipment, maintaining inventory, and keeping the record trustworthy.
Follow the workflow
Start with the topic you are working on. Each guide explains prerequisites, automatic decisions, exceptions, and the evidence to review.
Discovery and identity matching
Find devices on approved management networks, resolve access and identity questions, and review what enters the inventory.
Operator guideDevice reads and monitoring
Set up SSH and SNMP access, understand the shared polling schedule, and distinguish a fresh device answer from missing, incomplete, or older evidence.
Operator guideJuniper Mist
Connect a Juniper Mist organization with a read-only token, map its sites by hand, and read Mist's disconnected report as Mist's view rather than a Cenovel observation.
Operator guideModels, vendors, and discovery mappings
Maintain the product catalog, review discovered model assignments, and use the implemented vendor/product matching and diagram controls safely.
Operator guideAsset tracking and component replacement
Understand how observed hardware connects to inventory, what happens when a part changes, and when a person needs to resolve the record.
Operator guideSites, closets, stacks and port evidence
Navigate from a site to its closets and equipment, maintain a survey, and compare recorded connections with device observations without confusing missing evidence with a healthy or empty port.
Operator guideInventory, bulk editing and asset lifecycle
Create and maintain individual asset records, select a group safely, review bulk changes, and distinguish a move, a checkout and a deletion.
Operator guideOutages, evidence and planned maintenance
Understand what each outage detector observes, what can confirm recovery, and how planned work and management-network uncertainty affect alerts and history.
Operator guideNotifications, delivery and morning reports
Use the account feed, understand separate delivery-channel rules, review stored morning reports, and apply maintenance suppression without mistaking silence for recovery.
Operator guideE-Rate funding and equipment lifecycle
Record a funding cycle, connect site plans to identifiable equipment, review attribution and movement, and export the evidence currently held in Cenovel.
Operator guidePermissions, departments and Administrator EX
Assign appropriate access, understand why a page or record is restricted, manage department rules, and verify changes without confusing visibility with authority.
Operator guideAudit history, integrity and evidence
Interpret recorded changes, investigate operational failures and export retained audit evidence with a clear understanding of what integrity verification establishes.
Operator guideImporting and exporting inventory
Prepare a spreadsheet, review identity matches and partial results, and export a clearly scoped copy of the records you can access.
Keep a reference copy
Workflow illustrations and broader release validation remain in progress. Appliance installation, backup and update procedures are in the adjacent documentation.
Reviewed against the current source code. Confirm the behavior and available actions on your installed release.