Validating

In many situations, it is helpful for the inventory provider to validate any changes and for the user to see them.

Validate An Inventory

Running the validate subcommand will validate cani's proposed changes with the external inventory provider. If something is missing, the required information is shown for the user to take action on, often through the update subcommand.

# example, validate the existing inventory
cani alpha validate

If any issues are detected, it will show what is problematic for the provider:

1:35PM WRN This may fail in the HMS Simulator without Network information.
1:35PM ERR Inventory data validation errors encountered
1:35PM ERR   fbc29321-9519-42f1-a3d7-c7fbd15f1b2d: System:0->Cabinet:9000->Chassis:1->NodeBlade:0->NodeCard:0->Node:1
1:35PM ERR     - Missing required information: Alias is not set
1:35PM ERR     - Missing required information: NID is not set
1:35PM ERR     - Missing required information: Role is not set
1:35PM ERR   8947602e-37a0-49a1-b019-a441e198da25: System:0->Cabinet:9000->Chassis:1->NodeBlade:0->NodeCard:1->Node:1
1:35PM ERR     - Missing required information: Alias is not set
1:35PM ERR     - Missing required information: NID is not set
1:35PM ERR     - Missing required information: Role is not set
1:35PM ERR   ec50efb0-7953-4802-9274-e17e43caa4e8: System:0->Cabinet:9000->Chassis:1->NodeBlade:0->NodeCard:1->Node:0
1:35PM ERR     - Missing required information: Alias is not set
1:35PM ERR     - Missing required information: NID is not set
1:35PM ERR     - Missing required information: Role is not set
1:35PM ERR   7d4cd47e-558c-4075-91ae-043ca141717b: System:0->Cabinet:9000->Chassis:1->NodeBlade:0->NodeCard:0->Node:0
1:35PM ERR     - Missing required information: Alias is not set
1:35PM ERR     - Missing required information: NID is not set
1:35PM ERR     - Missing required information: Role is not set