Summary

When the FlexNet inventory agent is configured to collect Oracle Fusion Middleware audit data, inventory NDI files that are generated and uploaded may contain additional embedded content which is not strictly necessary to be included as part of the audit data. This can result in NDI files being larger than would otherwise be normal (especially on Windows operating systems), potentially growing to be several megabytes in size.

Details

Impacts from additional data gathered due to this issue can include:

• Longer time and increased CPU usage taken to collect inventory
• Additional network traffic generated when uploading NDI files
• Additional storage space consumed on beacons
• Additional storage space consumed by the FlexNet Manager Suite databases (such as in the dbo.ImportedComputerScriptResult_MT table in the compliance database)

Related information

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

• Enabling the Oracle Fusion Middleware (FMW) scan can cause an increase in the amount of file evidence collected (IOJ-2213407)
• 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)