lone_ranger

I was talking with a co-worker of mine and he pointed out that if you look at the AeXInvSolnAdm2.ini it calls aexmachinv.exe which would indicate that when software inventory runs, machine inventory will run right after it. The questions is, why enable machine inventory in the first place if I don't care about the exclusions that are in MachinvAdm.ini?

Software Inv ini file:
AeXInvSolnAdm2.ini
aexauditpls.exe /hidden /output xml
aexmachinv.exe <-- hw inv running all
aexcustinv.exe /in .\AeXCustInvStd.cit /out AeXCustInvStd.nsi
aexsnplus.exe /output xml
aexnsinvcollector.exe /hidden /nsctransport /v default /useguid
Hardware Inv ini file:
AeXInvSolnAdm1.ini
aexmachinv.exe /ini MachInvAdm.ini <-- hw inv except this ini
this ini excludes the data clases
AeX EU Logon Users
AeX EU Results
AeX OS Results
AeX OS User Profiles
AeX OS Desktop
AeX OS Internet Explorer
AeX Virtual Machine
aexcustinv.exe /in .\AeXCustInvStd.cit /out AeXCustInvStd.nsi
aexsnplus.exe /output xml
aexnsinvcollector.exe /hidden /nsctransport /v default /useguid

Brandon

Did you ever get information anywhere about this? I was looking into this piece as well.

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mack_jason

Not really, I posted the same question on the juice (RIP) and got some feedback. I'm chalking it up to a development oversight. I think they originally created the inventory solution to run both hardware and software inventory then found it better in large organizations to have them split. Although, if you really want to optimize the environment, you would want to rem this entry out and run the two tasks split. I only have 5,000 machines and I've been running my inventory like this for a few months now with no problems and yep, it does run hardware inventory when you run software inventory.

Here is my other posts with comments.

https://www-secure.symantec.com/conn...inventory-task

Charly-G

The Hardware-Inventory is designed to run very often but fast. The Software Inventory should run weekly or so and when scanning all files, then it is no big difference to grab also the full hardware-info.

Feel free to tune it in your own way.
For every software-scan I always recommend to start it via AeXRunControl to avoid "queuing" of multiple scans.