Cisco Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2(25)S

To enable the CNS inventory agent—that is, to send an inventory of the router’s line cards and modules 
to the CNS configuration engine—and enter CNS inventory mode, use the cns inventory command in 
global configuration mode. To disable the CNS inventory agent, use the no form of this command.

cns inventory 

This command has no arguments or keywords.

Disabled

 Global configuration

Use this command with the announce config and transport event CNS inventory configuration mode 
commands to specify when to notify the CNS configuration engine of changes to the router’s 
port-adaptor and interface inventory. A transport must be specified in CNS inventory configuration mode 
before any of the CNS inventory commands are executed.

The following example shows how to enable the CNS inventory agent and enter CNS inventory 
configuration mode:

Router(config)# cns inventory

Router(cns_inv)#

12.2(8)T

This command was introduced.

12.3(1)

The config, event, and notify oir keywords were removed.

12.2(25)S

This command was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.2(25)S.

Species that an unsolicited configuration inventory is sent out by the CNS 
inventory agent at bootup.

Starts the CNS configuration agent and initiates an initial configuration.

Species that inventory events are sent out by the CNS inventory agent.