Summary
This article discuss why network filesystems may be excluded from inventory on UNIX-like operating systems, and how can they be included.
Question
Why are network drives excluded from inventory even when I haven't set the ExcludeDirectory preference, for example as shown in the following sample logging:
File tracking looking for files in directories '/w001/nfs' ... File tracking of files on mount point '/w001/nfs/domains' of type 'nfs' will be excluded
I added an IncludeDirectory=/w001/nfs preference setting, and it includes and then excludes it, why is this?
Answer
The exclude comes from it being a network file system. The inventory gathering process will start its filesystem scan in the /w001/nfs directory, but it will not recurse into the sub-directory /w001/nfs/domains. This is because the default configuration is to not scan network-based filesystems.
This behavior is controlled using the following preferences:
IncludeNetworkDrives (default: false)
IncludeFileSystemType (default: "ufs,zfs,lofs")
ExcludeFileSystemType (default: "")
All of this is done to prevent the inventory gathering process from operating over a network connection. This behavior can be overridden by altering the above preferences. For example:
IncludeNetworkDrives=true
IncludeFileSystemType="nfs,ufs,zfs,lofs"
For example, edit /var/opt/managesoft/etc/config.ini file under the section
[ManageSoft\Tracker\CurrentVersion] IncludeNetworkDrives=true
This setting is affected by others like IncludeDirectory which can alter the directory to be scanned in conjunction with this setting. In order for a scan against a network drive to occur, IncludeNetworkDrives has to be set to true even if IncludeDirectory points to such a location.
For more on these preferences information, see the Preferences section in the Gathering FlexNet Inventory guide.
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