...
You might encounter that the host inventory data might disappear on either every inventory run or at least several times a day, like this:
HW/SW inventory is related to CMK agent hosts, a two-step story:
- The agent plugin collects the data, by default, every 4h
- The data delivered by the agent is then validly cached on CMK site side for 4h (or however the plugin interval is set)
- The HW/SW inventory service runs every 24h (set by the rule "normal check interval for service checks") and reads the cached data - NO AgentPoll is done at this time!
Now it could be due to different things that the data disappears:
...