Summary

A large amount of file evidence may be included in inventory data when the FlexNet inventory agent gathers Oracle Fusion Middleware inventory data, potentially leading to performance challenges with the inventory import process.

Details

The Oracle Fusion Middleware scan requires the inventory agent's IncludeDirectory preference to be set to "/" on Unix-like operating systems to gather file inventory data from all directories on the filesystem. In this configuration, challenges can arise handling the volume of file data gathered from devices with large file systems. For example, inventory import processing may take a long time to process all of the data.

Related information

Also see the following known issues which have some similarities to this one:

• Unnecessary data may be returned when gathering Oracle Fusion Middleware inventory data, leading to inventory files being larger than necessary (IOK-750656)
• Oracle Fusion Middleware (FMW) inventory scanning does not honor agent preference setting to exclude file paths, leading to inventory files being larger than necessary (IOK-752018)

Fix status

This issue has been fixed in the following FlexNet Manager Suite releases: 2021 R1.2 / Nov 2021 (Cloud), 2022 R1 (On Premises)

Other information

Affected components: Agent, Inventory, SAM for Oracle

Master issue ID: IOJ-2213407

Also known as: FNML-74076