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title: "Managing Inventory Items"
description: "Unless an item is added to the list of inventory items for a scope, it will not be available for use in the scope. By default, all items are not added to newly created scopes; only the Default Scope has all items added."
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breadcrumb: "User Guide > Configuring Veeam Recovery Orchestrator > Managing Inventory Items"
dateModified: "2026-08-26"
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# Managing Inventory Items

Unless an item is added to the list of inventory items for a scope, it will not be available for use in the scope. By default, all items are not added to newly created scopes; only the *Default* *Scope* has all items added.

::: tip

If an item is added to more than one scope, it will appear more than once in the list of inventory items — once for each scope. To view the relevant scope memberships, use the search fields displayed on the item tabs.

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To modify the list of items available for a scope:

1. Switch to the **Administration** page.
2. Navigate to **Inventory Access**.
3. **Switch to the necessary tab.**
4. Select an item that you want to add to the scope:

   1. Click **Add Scope**.
   2. In the **Add to Scope** window, select the scope from the drop-down list, and click **Apply**.

::: tip

You can simultaneously modify the list of inventory items available for multiple scopes. To do that, select check boxes next to the required items and click **Add Scope** or **Edit Scope**. After you select a scope from the drop-down list in the **Add to Scope** or **Edit Scope** window, the changes will be applied to all the selected item at the same time.

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After you add an item to a scope, Plan Authors will be able to use this item when building recovery plans for the scope, particularly:

- Use template jobs to protect machines included in replica and restore plans.
- Use credentials when configuring the **Windows Credentials** and **SQL Credentials** parameters for plan steps.
- Use recovery locations to recover machines included in restore and cloud plans, and also when running failback.
- Use DataLabs when performing on-demand and scheduled testing of recovery plans. For more information, see [Testing Recovery Plans](testing_recovery_plans.md).

For more information on creating and editing recovery plans, see [Working with Replica Plans](working_with_replica_plans.md), [Working with CDP Replica Plans](working_with_cdp_plans.md), [Working with Restore Plans](working_with_restore_plans.md) and [Working with Cloud Plans](working_with_cloud_plans.md).

::: note

By design, the list of available recovery locations will always display VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure recovery locations only. For storage recovery locations, there is no need to allow access — Orchestrator automatically identifies the locations to be used when running storage plans. For more information on the way Orchestrator analyzes storage recovery locations, see [Storage Failover](storage_failover_overview.md).

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