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I Thought Linux Agents Didn't Automatically Run An Inventory After Installation Like Windows ... But I Have Three That Ran a Hardware Inventory.

Hi all ...

I recently deployed the inventory agent, manually, to three different flavors of Linux:

  • Ubuntu 20
  • Amazon Linux 2
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7

Shortly after the agent was deployed, I noticed a familiar looking file with a slightly different name - mgs1-tracker.log.  When I opened that file, I saw that the agent ran a hardware inventory, and when I checked the InventoryReport table, I saw entries for all three servers.  The HWDate field had a value but the SWDate and FilesDate values were null, which is what I'd expect if all that ran was a hardware inventory.  I was very surprised to see this.

I thought that you had to manually run the ndtrack command in Linux (or wait for the schedule to kick in) before being able to see anything from a Linux machine.  But here's a case where the hardware inventory occurred on its own automatically.  Is my belief mistaken or is this something recent? I've never seen the file name mgs1-tracker.log referenced anywhere.  (The agent version was 2022R1).

--Mark

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What are your Inventory Settings for Inventory Agent Schedule?

I have found that if Run last missed event is checked, it will run at least a hardware inventory. 

Here are my settings:

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As you can see, "run last missed event" is not checked.

ChrisG
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On Unix-like operating systems, policy will be applied and inventory gathered (with logging in a file named mgs1-tracker.log) if the MGSFT_RUNPOLICY setting is set to 1 (true) in the mgsft_rollout_response file that is used to bootstrap the agent.

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