02 July 2007

Is there a way to suspend the inventory scan upon bootup?

Question:
There are a number of people who shut their computers down over the weekend. Our Full Software Inventory scan runs over the weekend. When these users come in on Monday morning the Software Inventory scan starts and slows the performance of their computers way down. Is there a way to suspend or minimize the performance hit of inventory for these users?
Answer:
There are a couple of options for doing this with the second option being the most preferred.Option 1: In the registry of the client at HKLM\SOFTWARE\Altiris Agent is a registry key called "Delay at System Boot (secs)". Setting this for a value like 600 (decimal) would theorectically delay the startup of the Altiris Agent for 10 minutes preventing the inventory tasks from running.Option 2: Configure the "Slow mode delay (milliseconds)" in the AuditPls.ini. This will slow down the scan minimzing the performance hit on the computer during the software scan. See article
3674 for details on how to configure this.

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