topic FYI Snow Inventory audit in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/FYI-Snow-Inventory-audit/m-p/832512#M1331363 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>Just as information if anyone searches the web for SNOW and Qlikview publisher.</P><P>Our IS/IT installed a program on all servers calles SNOW Inventory which gathers information about which programs that are running, are installed, have a license etc etc</P><P>Here is the url to the program.</P><P><A href="http://www.snowsoftware.com/int/products/snow-inventory" target="_blank">http://www.snowsoftware.com/int/products/snow-inventory</A></P><P></P><P>That program increased the times of our publisher-tasks with about 600% as can be seen in the screenshot below. The program was installed at 03:48 and the timeout of the task is 25 min.</P><P>Since nothing can be seen in memory-usage, processor-usage or I/O usage that this program is causing trouble it is not trivial to find.</P><P>After uninstallation of Snow from the server we had to restart it to get back to the original performance.</P><P></P><P><IMG alt="" class="jive-image image-1" src="https://community.qlik.com/legacyfs/online/87263_pastedImage_3.png" style="max-width: 1200px; max-height: 900px;" /></P><P></P><P>brgds</P><P>Andy</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT andy 2026-01-26T18:19:17Z FYI Snow Inventory audit https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/FYI-Snow-Inventory-audit/m-p/832512#M1331363 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>Just as information if anyone searches the web for SNOW and Qlikview publisher.</P><P>Our IS/IT installed a program on all servers calles SNOW Inventory which gathers information about which programs that are running, are installed, have a license etc etc</P><P>Here is the url to the program.</P><P><A href="http://www.snowsoftware.com/int/products/snow-inventory" target="_blank">http://www.snowsoftware.com/int/products/snow-inventory</A></P><P></P><P>That program increased the times of our publisher-tasks with about 600% as can be seen in the screenshot below. The program was installed at 03:48 and the timeout of the task is 25 min.</P><P>Since nothing can be seen in memory-usage, processor-usage or I/O usage that this program is causing trouble it is not trivial to find.</P><P>After uninstallation of Snow from the server we had to restart it to get back to the original performance.</P><P></P><P><IMG alt="" class="jive-image image-1" src="https://community.qlik.com/legacyfs/online/87263_pastedImage_3.png" style="max-width: 1200px; max-height: 900px;" /></P><P></P><P>brgds</P><P>Andy</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/FYI-Snow-Inventory-audit/m-p/832512#M1331363 andy 2026-01-26T18:19:17Z