Oracle Fusion Middleware inventory configuration improved

Note:This enhancement is available with IT Asset Management.

The collection of specialized inventory for Oracle Fusion Middleware has been refined. Initially, this functionality relied on the IncludeDirectory preference being set to / on UNIX-like systems; but experience shows that this can return excessive amounts of file evidence, much of which is unrelated to Oracle Fusion Middleware. Moving forward, IncludeDirectory reverts solely to its original purpose of specifying folders for collecting file evidence for either application recognition or usage tracking. When collection of inventory for Oracle Fusion Middleware is authorized (by the controls described in the March 2021 feature announcement Oracle Fusion Middleware inventory configuration improved), the FlexNet inventory agent automatically scans the entire file system (as required by Oracle), almost independent of the setting in IncludeDirectory. The system-wide scan knows which folders (in IncludeDirectory) have already been scanned, and where Oracle Fusion Middleware evidence has already been collected during the regular inventory scan of the target device; and no folder is scanned a second time, again optimizing performance and uploads.