Inventory and Throttling

Inventory is a disk and can be a CPU intensive task and this has nothing to do with full or differential Inventory, both scan the complete disk (is no extra exclusions are made)

There there are some techniques to take off the load.

CPU throttling

For software/file inventory task you can choose between Low, Normal, High and Very High priority under “Set inventory process priority” (Run Options tab of Advanced settings). Priorities correspond to the following settings (“nice” options for UNIX/Linux/Mac):

Priority	Windows	Linux	Unix	Macintosh
Low	25%	10	30	10
Normal	50%	0	20	0
High	75%	-10	10	-10
Very High	100%	-20	0	-20

This can be overridden (Windows only) using the “Override inventory process priority” option

If you select to override a good comparison for Windows would be :

Priority	Files	Wait for (ms)
Low	150	60
Normal	250	50
High	350	40
Very High	450	20

Bandwidth Throttling or Fuzzy Logic (Windows Only)

The AeXRunContol does no longer exist, but there is a setting called “Evenly distribute sending inventory over X hours” (aka fuzzy logic). It is located on Run Options tab of Advanced settings.