Scheduling Inventory Tasks to run
Hello fellow Administrators,
I'm planning how inventory scans should run in our organization. We have 1 NS server and 2000 clients.
I want to run inventory scans, that it makes little impact as possible on users and NS server.
My plan is as follows:
HW inventory
Run every Tuesday at 2:00 or as soon as possible
Normal priority
SW inventory
Run every Tuesday at 3:00 or as soon as possible
Normal priority
Recreate Full Inventory
Run every 1st Wednesday of the month at 5:00 or as soon as possible
Normal priority
User inventory is disabled, because at the moment we don't need that data.
Clients are located at 3 different time zones. 1500 of them is located at same time zone.
My questions are:
- Which order agent runs these inventory scans, if workstation has been shutted down for week and is started up at first Friday of the month? HW first, SW next and Recreate Full Inventory last?
- How long after power up queued tasks start to execute? After Altiris Agent NT service has been started?
- I would like to run SW inventory every day, but i guess it's not wise in this size environment?
- If you have own experiences on this, I would love to hear them
Comments
Weedee,
- in theory the inventories should run in the order they're scheduled, in practice, they may well run in a an order of their own choosing!
- They will start to execute as soon as the Altiris agent service starts and realises that tasks are outstanding
- You can run SW inv every day but you'll be adding quite a load to the NS and would need to scale back other things to compensate (Collection update schedule, agent basic inv and config request etc etc). I would suggest every two days as a compromise?
hth
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