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Quick question - we have some devices that are producing 2 scan files every day - one has just hardware information, the other file has full inventory data.
Any ideas?
Thanks
May 16, 2022 09:49 AM
The hardware-only NDI files would be for the frequent hardware scanning required by IBM for capturing PVU sub-capacity calculations when Flexera is used as a replacement for ILMT.
May 16, 2022 10:38 AM
Thanks for the update - would there just be one file generated for the sub-cap calculations per day?
May 16, 2022 10:58 AM
@Smitty986 - That depends on the Inventory Settings you have made within your FNMS/ITAM Inventory Settings page, but the schedule for frequent scanning for IBM is set from every 30 minutes, up to every 2 hours.
May 16, 2022 11:20 AM
Currently set at 30 mins.
May 16, 2022 11:23 AM
Inventory NDI files from the high-frequency scan to support IBM sub-capacity calculations are only generated and uploaded if the agent detects a change in a "hardware" property.
The following agent preference provides some control to exclude selected classes & properties from triggering an NDI file to be generated: HardwareChangesClassPropertyBlacklist
There are a range of known issues related to this, where common but generally irrelevant hardware changes trigger these NDI files to be generated. See:
May 16, 2022 08:32 PM