Inventory Server

Updated in 2021.1

Updated in 2022.1

Alloy Inventory Server is a multitasking Windows service for running automated tasks and scheduled events in Alloy Discovery.

Inventory Server performs the following tasks:

• Discovers nodes on the network according to the schedule or on demand;

• Audits nodes on the network according to the schedule or on demand;

• Checks Network Folder Audit Sources, FTP Audit Sources, and E-mail Audit Sources for new audit snapshots with the upload interval or on demand;

• Loads audit snapshots collected by the Portable Audit.

• Uploads all received audit snapshots to the database. During the upload process, it performs various operations when processing received audit data, such as:

  • Identification and categorization of software products, enriching the Software Catalog;

  • Change History tracking;

  • Sending out alert notifications;

  • Detecting audit conflicts and resolving them, if any;

  • Logging all Alloy Discovery events.

Alloy Discovery supports multiple Inventory Server instances within a single database. On distributed networks with multiple Inventory Servers running, it s strongly advised to designate one Inventory Server instance as primary to improve audit snapshot processing performance.