offline target inventory

[marcog]

For some server that are not connected to the network I need to manually run the ndtrack.sh and ndtrack.exe.

Are the following commands enough to get hardware and oracle information from target servers?

Thank you for your help

Unix

sudo ./ndtrack.sh -o InventoryType=Machine -o Upload="false" -o MachineInventoryDirectory=/home/oracle/temp -o Logging=True

win

ndtrack.exe -t Machine -o Upload="False" -o LogModules="default" -o ShowIcon="false" -o CALInventory="False"

[ChrisG · Accepted solution]

Yes, those commands will give you both hardware and Oracle Database inventory data. Be sure to have the InventorySettings.xml file in the same directory as the ndtrack.exe/ndtrack.sh file that you are executing: Oracle Database inventory will not be gathered without that file in place.

When running ndtrack manually like this, explicitly specifying a path to the log file on the command line can help simplify finding logging from the inventory gathering process. For example:

For Unix: -o LogFile=/home/oracle/temp/tracker.log

For Windows: -o LogFile=c:\Temp\tracker.log

[marcog]

I case of running it on windows with Upload=false, what happens if I don't specify the option MachineInventoryDirectory?

[kclausen]

@marcog  - Here are the commands that the Flexera Pre-Sales Team uses in a POC for exactly this scenario.

Windows

ndtrack.exe -t machine -o Upload=False 

The generated NDI files will be found in C:\ProgramData\ManageSoft Corp\ManageSoft\Common\Uploads\Inventories

Linux/Unix/OS X

./ndtrack.sh -t machine -o IncludeDirectory=/ -o Upload=false -o LogFile=/var/tmp/inventory.log

The generated NDI files will be found in /var/tmp/flexera/uploads/Inventories

If you do not wish to perform the scan starting at the “/” root folder, then you can simply remove the “IncludeDirectory” parameter.  Without this, the Flexera Scanner will only scan the standard folders of /var, /opt and /usr.  If you need to scan any additional folders in addition to the defaults, then you would use the “IncludeDirectory” parameter.  Here are two examples, where a single folder is specified, and an example showing the format to specify more than 1 folder (quotes and commas)

IncludeDirectory=/folder1

IncludeDirectory=”/folder1”,”/folder2”