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I have created several custom inventories for the 6.x NS environment, and they all work quite well for me... except for one. All of the inventories have been a total update of the table data for that PC and not a cumulative update (keep adding a row). I believe this is possible, but wanted to throw the question out there before I just went with what we have.
We are trying to diagnose "slow login" times and we created a vbs that gathers information and pumps out the nsi with all the information we are looking for to diagnose sites/PCs. We would enable this inventory on user login. Below is the nsi output of the vb script.

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<InventoryClasses> <InventoryClass name='AeX Computer Boot Stats18' manufacturer='Altiris' description='Workstation boottime statistics' version='1.0' platform='Win32' mifClass='Altiris|Computer_Network_Desc|1.0'> <xml xmlns:s='uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882' xmlns:dt='uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882' xmlns:rs='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset' xmlns:z='#RowsetSchema'> <s:Schema id='RowsetSchema'> <s:ElementType name='row' content='eltOnly' rs:updatable='False'> <s:AttributeType name='c0' rs:name='ADSite' rs:number='1' rs:nullable='true' mifAttrId='1'> <s:datatype dt:type='string' dt:maxLength='255'/> </s:AttributeType> <s:AttributeType name='c1' rs:name='invDate' rs:number='2' rs:nullable='true' mifAttrId='2'> <s:datatype dt:type='dateTime' dt:maxLength='255'/> </s:AttributeType> <s:AttributeType name='c2' rs:name='UsersEUID' rs:number='3' rs:nullable='true' mifAttrId='3'> <s:datatype dt:type='string' dt:maxLength='255'/> </s:AttributeType> <s:AttributeType name='c3' rs:name='FirstFileModified' rs:number='4' rs:nullable='true' mifAttrId='4'> <s:datatype dt:type='dateTime' dt:maxLength='255'/> </s:AttributeType> <s:AttributeType name='c4' rs:name='WindowsDefaultBackgroundBlue' rs:number='5' rs:nullable='true' mifAttrId='5'> <s:datatype dt:type='dateTime' dt:maxLength='255'/> </s:AttributeType> <s:AttributeType name='c5' rs:name='PreparingNetworkConnections' rs:number='6' rs:nullable='true' mifAttrId='6'> <s:datatype dt:type='dateTime' dt:maxLength='255'/> </s:AttributeType> <s:AttributeType name='c6' rs:name='ApplyingSecuritySettings' rs:number='7' rs:nullable='true' mifAttrId='7'> <s:datatype dt:type='dateTime' dt:maxLength='255'/> </s:AttributeType> <s:AttributeType name='c7' rs:name='ApplyingComputerSettings' rs:number='8' rs:nullable='true' mifAttrId='8'> <s:datatype dt:type='dateTime' dt:maxLength='255'/> </s:AttributeType> <s:AttributeType name='c8' rs:name='CrtlAltDel' rs:number='9' rs:nullable='true' mifAttrId='9'> <s:datatype dt:type='dateTime' dt:maxLength='255'/> </s:AttributeType> <s:AttributeType name='c9' rs:name='UserLogon' rs:number='10' rs:nullable='true' mifAttrId='10'> <s:datatype dt:type='dateTime' dt:maxLength='255'/> </s:AttributeType> <s:AttributeType name='c10' rs:name='UserLastLogon' rs:number='11' rs:nullable='true' mifAttrId='11'> <s:datatype dt:type='dateTime' dt:maxLength='255'/> </s:AttributeType> <s:AttributeType name='c11' rs:name='LogonScriptStart' rs:number='12' rs:nullable='true' mifAttrId='12'> <s:datatype dt:type='dateTime' dt:maxLength='255'/> </s:AttributeType> <s:AttributeType name='c12' rs:name='LogonScriptFinish' rs:number='13' rs:nullable='true' mifAttrId='13'> <s:datatype dt:type='dateTime' dt:maxLength='255'/> </s:AttributeType> <s:AttributeType name='c13' rs:name='DesktopReady' rs:number='14' rs:nullable='true' mifAttrId='14'> <s:datatype dt:type='dateTime' dt:maxLength='255'/> </s:AttributeType> </s:ElementType> </s:Schema> <rs:data> <z:row c0="MySiteNameHere" c1="2011-03-28T19:44:25" c2="MyUserIDHere" c3="2011-03-14T09:44:35" c4="2011-03-14T09:44:46" c5="2011-03-14T09:45:15" c6="2011-03-14T09:45:33" c7="2011-03-28T13:14:57" c8="2011-03-14T09:45:50" c9="2011-03-14T09:43:38" c10="2011-03-28T19:30:07" c11="2011-03-14T09:46:13" c12="2011-03-14T09:46:21" c13="2011-03-28T17:44:47" />  </rs:data>  </xml>  </InventoryClass>  </InventoryClasses>

I can't help too much with the XML I'm afraid, but I would just pose the basic question of have you ticked the 'allow multiple rows from a single computer resource' option in Manage Custom Data Classes? Also, I would love to take a look at the VB script you are using to monitor this as we suffer from a similar problem sometimes. Do you reckon you could post it? Cheers!

I don't see anything in data class area in the 6.x to "Allow multiple rows from a single computer resource.  Only in the 7.1 console.  Would that be an option some where else in the 6.x console?

Script attached is attached. ;-)

That's a very nice script!  It blows the wheels off the janky method we are using by analyzing the System and Application event logs!  I would suggest posting that to the Downloads section; you'll get more Connect points and help other people out.

Back to your question...if I understand it right, you want to keep a log of all the values for each machine, correct?  Unfortunately you can't do this directly; when you post a new .NSI it overwrites the old one. However,  there are a few ways I can think of to get around this:

1) Write your date values out to a hierarchy of registry keys (HKLM\Software\MyCompany\BootLog\1, 2, 3, 4 where 1, 2, 3, 4 are keys, with the values set to the various columns you are collecting, written out in ISO-9660 format timestamps as strings.  Then you can custom inventory with a "foreach" loop to pull in all of the values.  You could also dump it to a TXT file or get fancy with an XML file to store the history, then reparse it with another script to build a multi-row NSI.

2) Enable Data Class history.  I think this is in Resource History section of the console (I don't use this myself so I don't recall the exact path, but it is under Server Settings on the Configuration Tab I think).  You can set a maximum # days or changes I think.  Be careful with this one; your DB can get quite large very quickly if you run the inventory too frequently or don't set appropriate limits.