Policies - Maintenance - Update Inventory not being executed

jimmy-swings
Contributor II

I enable this feature for all Policies but find that the machine doesn't update it's inventory and thus Self Service policies which are dependent upon the installation of another don't appear for approximately 24 hours. Is anyone else having a similar problem?

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grahamfw
New Contributor III

Do you see anything in jamf.log? Does it even attempt to run inventory according to the log?

chriscollins
Valued Contributor

What happens when you run

sudo jamf recon

?

mm2270
Legendary Contributor III

I was wondering the same thing as @chriscollins Check to see if you can run a manual recon in Terminal first off. If it fails there too then its not going to work in your policy and you'd need to figure out why.
Also, is this happening on all Macs, or just some? What OS versions and what version of the JSS are you using? These could be important factors.
Also keep in mind that the policy may be attempting a recon, but if, due to an issue with the Mac, or a defect in the product, its not able to actually complete the recon, no inventory update will occur. Recon takes place locally through the jamf binary and only when its gathered all the data does it do an upload back to the JSS to update the Mac record. So if it never gets to that final stage for some reason, inventory data doesn't get updated on your JSS.