Inventory Server

Updated in 2021.1

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

Inventory Server performs the following tasks:

• Discover nodes on the network according to the schedule or on demand;
• Audit nodes on the network according to the schedule or on demand;
• Check Network Folder Audit Sources, FTP Audit Sources, and E-mail Audit Sources for new audit snapshots with the upload interval or on demand;
• Load audit snapshots collected by the Portable Audit.
• Upload all received audit snapshots to the database. During the upload process, it performs various operations when processing received audit data, such as:
  • Recognize software products and populate the Software Catalog;
  • Track the Change History;
  • Send out alert notifications;
  • Detect audit conflicts and resolves them, if any;

  • Log all events in Alloy Discovery.

Alloy Discovery supports multiple Inventory Server instances per a single database. On distributed networks with multiple Inventory Servers running, you may want to designate one Inventory Server instance as primary to improve audit snapshot processing performance.