SamuelBaughan asked a question.
What is that SLM SMACC Basic setting exactly about?
The official doc says:
INV_FILE_FILTER: File extension filter for data sources (only applies to Windows OS based files). Defines the type of inventory files that will be transferred to SLM by adding or removing file endings in the comma-separated list.
I see in SLM that files with other extensions are also transferred from INV to SLM (*.tmp, *.dll, *.00, ...). Why are they passed on to SLM? Are the detection rules applied or not to those files with other extensions? What is the use of this filter if it applies only to Windows OS based files? How is it different from the filter <IncludeCriteria> <FileType> in the local snowagent.config?
This thread shows that is does more than what it appears to do: https://community.flexera.com/s/question/0D5PL00000NvxJ90AJ/adding-00-to-the-invfilefilter-setting
Do we still need to add the magical ".00" in this list of extensions?
Your agent can be configured to scan for specific file extensions. It will report all those files to the Inventory server.
But not all files will be transferred over to the SLM server during the Data Update Job, only the ones specified in the INV_FILE_FILTER setting. You would usually want to have the same file extensions in both the agent configuration and the SLM SMACC.
Here is one case where maybe you would have a different list of file extensions: You use another method to report more file extensions but they do not come from your agent. For example, you develop a custom method to scan for specific DLL files on some clients to detect a specific app, but you do not want the Snow agents to scan for all DLLs (there are too many of them on each client). In this case, your agent would not list the DLL extension in its config file, but the SLM SMACC would.
I hope that helps