This facility uses the following inventory information updating dates/times to identify hosts as being unneeded, because their inventory information has not been updated for a specific period of time:

• Last time system information was updated
• Last time installed package information was updated
• Last time user inventory information was updated
• Last time registry information was updated
• Last time software inventory information was updated

This subsection describes how to set an inventory updating date/time and automatically delete unupdated clients.

To set automatic maintenance:

1. In the System Configuration window, choose Options, and then Auto System Configuration Maintenance.
   The Automatic System Configuration Maintenance dialog box appears.
   
2. Choose the Inventory update date/time settings tab.
   The Inventory update date/time settings page is displayed.
   

   Figure 9-12 Inventory update date/time settings page

   

3. Select Delete automatically, and specify the settings.
   

   For the past n months

   This item lets you specify a search range of months in the past from the current date to find hosts whose inventory information has not changed within the specified period. You can specify 1-999. However, the search range cannot cover the period earlier than January 1, 1971.

   For the past n days

   This item lets you specify a search range of days in the past from the current date to find the hosts whose inventory information has not changed within the specified period. You can specify 1-999. However, the search range cannot cover the period earlier than January 1, 1971.

   Schedule

   These items enable you to specify a time for starting automatic client deletion and a maximum processing time for automatic client deletion. When automatic client deletion starts, it will terminate when the maximum processing time elapses, even if there are still clients remaining to be deleted. If the maximum processing time is set to 0, the deletion processing will not be terminated until all clients that should be deleted have been deleted. Whenever some clients that should have been deleted remain, they are deleted the next time deletion processing is performed.

4. After specifying the settings, click the OK button.
   Regardless of the time on the day when you choose OK, automatic maintenance of the system configuration is activated for the first time the next day, even if the specified start time has not been reached on the current day.