Looking for some insight into how software inventory client agent settings interpret priority. Or rather clarification as to how it should work - we appear to see different behavior now than we did in 2012.
Suppose the default client agent settings (priority 10,000) includes
*.exe on all client hard disks , including subfolders and no exclusions
*.all on all client hard disks , including subfolders and no exclusions
Then Standard Desktop SW inventory (priority 1,000) includes
*.pdf in c:\FakeDir
- but it does NOT include any reference to .exe
and then
Test SW inventory (priority 100) includes
*.pdf in c:\anotherDir\
*.exe in c:\ExeDir\
The question is whether when you add a remove an extension at a lower priority (1 being lowest) will it trump or append to what the higher priority has set?
I am confused because we have *.exe in our default settings, but then also *.exe and other settings in lower priority settings..
Snippit from InventoryAgent.log:
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\ccm\invagt; Query = SELECT Name, Path, LastWriteDate, Size, CompanyName, ProductName, ProductVersion, ProductLanguage, FileVersion, FileDescription FROM FileSystemFile WHERE Name = '*.exe|srcsafe.ini|pdfshell.dll' AND Path
= '*\\*'; Timeout = 14400 secs. InventoryAgent 8/15/2016 11:44:24 AM 13476 (0x34A4)
Collection: Input context, scan rate in milliseconds = 2 InventoryAgent 8/15/2016 12:08:33 PM 18236 (0x473C)
Collection: Input context, skip file name = skpswi.dat InventoryAgent 8/15/2016 12:08:33 PM 18236 (0x473C)
Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\ccm\invagt; Query = SELECT Name, Path, LastWriteDate, Size, CompanyName, ProductName, ProductVersion, ProductLanguage, FileVersion, FileDescription FROM FileSystemFile WHERE Name = '*.dll' AND Path = '%ProgramFiles(x86)%\\Microsoft
Configuration Manager Console\\AdminUI\\*' AND SkipWindirFolders = TRUE AND IsCompressed = FALSE AND IsEncrypted = FALSE; Timeout = 14400 secs. InventoryAgent 8/15/2016 12:08:33 PM 18236 (0x473C)
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Collection: Namespace = \\.\root\ccm\invagt; Query = SELECT Name, Path, LastWriteDate, Size, CompanyName, ProductName, ProductVersion, ProductLanguage, FileVersion, FileDescription FROM FileSystemFile WHERE Name = '*.exe|srcsafe.ini' AND Path = '*\\*'; Timeout
= 14400 secs. InventoryAgent 8/15/2016 12:19:07 PM 23912 (0x5D68)
Will
