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Engine Collect Task

Engine collect tasks collect the information from the scalability servers and update the database. The engine collect tasks are available under the Control Panel, Engines, Engine Tasks, Collect Tasks folder. You can configure an engine collect task to perform the following functions:

Audit

Collects the audit data generated by the Software Usage collect task for which you have enabled auditing.

Backup

Collects the files configured under File Collection.

Content Distribution

Distributes new content from the domain manager to the scalability server so that target computers can retrieve the content.

Hardware Inventory

Collects the inventory information generated by the Hardware Inventory and Template Inventory collect tasks.

Software Discovery

Collects the inventory information generated by the Software Discovery and File Scan collect tasks.

Software Usage

Collects the information generated by the Software Usage collect tasks.

Status

Collects the status time stamps from the Asset Jobs and Collect Tasks.