How can I enable or disable Inventory History?
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How can I enable or disable Inventory History?

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Article ID: 181230

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Products

IT Management Suite

Issue/Introduction

Question

I see in the resource manager, for some computers, that some of the inventory dataclasses have a History tab. This History tab shows when specific dataclasses were changed and what the change was. I also see that there is a reference to the history table name 'InvHist_...'

How can I enable or disable this Inventory History?

Environment

ITMS 7.x, 8.x

Resolution

Answer
You can enable the Inventory History function on the console by going to Settings>All Settings>Notification Server>Resource and Data Class Settings>Resource History>Resource Data History tab>Inventory Solution.

For example, if you want to enable Basic Inventory or Unix User Usage history, check the check box for that dataclass to start collecting history.

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Here you can specify if you want to keep 6 months for example of data for the Inv_UNIX_User_Usage table or 1 million rows (whichever comes first). The data will be stored in a new table called "InvHist_UNIX_User_Usage"  for example.

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By simply unchecking this check box it will no longer store any more history.

Note: Disabling Resource History will not purge already stored history, so you may want to truncate the table for the data to be purged.