Hi Bruno,

It will be interesting to know how you envision the interaction between DataMiner and your inventory system:

• Should DataMiner will request data from your inventory system to know what elements should be created? If this is the case:
  • Will DataMiner request information by querying directly a DB?
  • Or your inventory will expose a API that DataMiner can use to request information?
• Should DataMiner connect to a webhook to receive notifications from the inventory system whenever there is an action to perform on DataMiner (e.g. create an element)?

For these use cases, we will need to build a connector that will interface with your inventory system. For the provisioning, we could have a look at IDP and use the provisioning module to provision/update/remove elements.

If it is not required that DataMiner interacts with your inventory system, I could think of two possible approaches:

• As Toon suggested, your platform (that interacts with the inventory system) should generate a CSV file with the columns required by DataMiner to successfully provision elements. Keep in mind that CSV file provisioning does not support element removal, i.e. if you remove a row (that represents a provisioned element) from the CSV file, the corresponding element in DataMiner will not be removed.
• Another option is to use the DataMiner web API. You can enhance your platform (that interact with the inventory system) by using the web API to create/delete elements.