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David J Davis
07/27/2022, 8:46 PMHow long is software kept in FleetDM's software inventory after it is no longer detected in the environment?
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Kathy Satterlee
07/27/2022, 9:06 PMHi, @David J Davis! What version of Fleet are you running?
Software inventory by default updates once an hour, but there was a tweak made in 4.16.0 to better handle orphaned software.
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David J Davis
07/27/2022, 9:15 PMFleetDM Premium 4.16
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Kathy Satterlee
07/27/2022, 9:43 PMAre you seeing any unexpected behavior with Software lingering longer than expected?
How often software updates depends on the value set for
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David J Davis
07/28/2022, 12:28 PMThanks for the information. I use a Fleet live query to gather a software inventory daily and populate/update a SQL database. I was looking for a way to clean this database of applications no longer present in the environment.
I can't really use the live query, because it's not always complete, works fine for populating/updating as it's done daily. However, for removal, if a machine is temporarily offline and is the only one with a specific piece of software, then it could get removed and then added when the machine comes back online.
So software is updated hourly by default, what if a machine is still in FleetDM's hosts DB, but is offline, would that cause Fleet to remove any software that had been found on that machine in the past?
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Kathy Satterlee
07/28/2022, 2:11 PMOnly the online hosts are updated, so that shouldn't be an issue!
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David J Davis
07/28/2022, 2:30 PMSo would the software get removed if the machine is offline or remain until the machine got cleaned from the hosts DB?
or came back online and got a software inventory update.
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Kathy Satterlee
07/28/2022, 2:42 PMThe software will remain until the host comes back online or is removed.
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David J Davis
07/28/2022, 3:01 PMOK, that is excellent, that should work for my purpose.
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Kathy Satterlee
07/28/2022, 7:36 PM@David J Davis If the publisher from the programs table was used to populate the
vendorLetting those ideas percolate.
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