ZENworks Asset Inventory scan takes considerable time.

  • 3741850
  • 04-Aug-2006
  • 27-Apr-2012

Environment


Novell ZENworks Asset Management 7 - ZAM7

Situation

A workstation heavily used to browse the Internet can obtain thousands of temporary Internet files. The ZENworks Asset Inventory scanner will scan each of this files.

Resolution

Fix:
Regular disk clean up and maintenance will avoid this issue.

Workaround:
The current workaround is to exclude the path:
  • Enterprise-wide - within the Option Set > Collector > Software Collection > Skip Directories During Application and File Scan.
  • Per workstation - within the \bin\options.txt enter "skipdir:"