High failure rate for Inventory Policies, sometimes succeeds, sometimes fails

Products

• Inventory Solution

Issue/Introduction

How to troubleshoot high failure rate for Inventory Policies where it sometimes succeeds and sometimes fails?

Environment

Inventory Solution 8.x

Cause

The Advanced Run Options "Throttle inventory scan evenly over a priod of: X hours" extends the execution time of the policy. Reboots, log offs, etc., can interrupt the inventory execution, causing it to fail.

Resolution

Try removing or shortening the throttle time. Make sure the time does not extend to past the end of the working day where users will turn off their systems.

Splitting the Inventory policies into different groups can achieve the same affect and lighten the load of Inventory arriving at the SMP Server.