About Detailed File Inventory - Symantec ALTIRIS INVENTORY SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

About detailed file inventory

Run Options tab (continued)
Table 4-9
Option
System Resource Usage
Report detailed file inventory
immediately (Windows only)
Run Inventory as
Detailed file inventory scans the files on target computers and collects detailed
information, such as manufacturer, version, and so on. This feature works with
Windows computers only.
Gathering inventory on managed computers
Description
You can modify the usage of the target computer's
processor and disk usage during an inventory scan.
The actual resource utilization during an inventory scan
will depend on the target computer's processor type and
hard disk speed. During a file scan for software
inventory, the number of files on the hard drive will
also affect resource utilization.
If you set the value to lower than normal, then target
computer's resources are minimized, however, the
inventory scan will take longer.
If you set the value to higher than normal, then more
of the target computer's resources are used and the
inventory scan will complete faster.
You may want to create multiple separate inventory
policies and target similar types of target computers.
For example, you may want to create a policy with
servers as targets. You can set the priority to lower than
normal to decrease the resource utilization and not
adversely impact the server's performance.
You may want to lower the resource utilization for other
types of computers, such as notebook computers, which
generally have slower hard disks and processors.
Gathers the detailed file inventory immediately, rather
than performing a second detailed inventory scan
afterwards.
This option scans the files on target computers and
collects additional information, such as manufacturer,
version, and so on.
See "About detailed file inventory"
You can specify the user account that the task runs in,
based on the platform the target computer is running.
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