PENDING Software inventory agent related question

[ManateeGeek]

I have started getting this error for a lot of systems in my environment. Does anyone have any ideas? The agent encountered an error while querying WMI to collect data from this computer. The first query to fail was "SELECT Name, Path, LastWriteDate, Size, CompanyName, ProductName, ProductVersion, ProductLanguage, FileVersion, FileDescription FROM FileSystemFile WHERE Name = '*.exe|*.com|*.bat|*.lukitus|*.jnlp' AND Path = '*\\*' AND IsCompressed = FALSE AND IsEncrypt".

 

[Garth]

Where to start with this?
What you are doing is not recommend. Here is some light reading on why Sw inv is bad. https://www.enhansoft.com/how-do-you-determine-the-length-of-a-software-inventory-scan-cycle/

 

[ManateeGeek]

It is correct that this is happening due to timeouts on the client. What information on the client am I missing out on with not doing the Sw inv?

 

[Garth]

It is correct that this is happening due to timeouts on the client. What information on the client am I missing out on with not doing the Sw inv?

All of it. Nothing will ever get sent to MP once you hit the timeout. Hence why SW inventory is useless.