Yesterday we hit an odd issue when changing the filter on a managed software delivery policy. To reflect the our JRE update moving out of the pilot phase, we tried to change the policy to target the entire managed estate filter.
This changed never applied, with two errors raised in logviewer,
Failed to save item: a50e4dd7-8b99-4ca2-a79b-6b2ef5c4655fAltiris.NS.Exceptions.AeXException (): Item state has exceeded the 65,536 KB limit specified in core settings: a50e4dd7-8b99-4ca2-a79b-6b2ef5c4655f
Error at SWDTaskBasedPolicy::Save()### Exception:Item state has exceeded the 65,536 KB limit specified in core settings: a50e4dd7-8b99-4ca2-a79b-6b2ef5c4655f
To resolve, we cleared all the superscendence entries for this software product (Java). When we then made a small change to the policy description and saved it. This then saved as a normal sized policy, so problem fixed.
Except we're not sure about the stability of superscendece when using superceded software products, rather than just components within a software product.
Attached for completeness is the bloated policy export when we used superscedence, and then the policy again once we'd removed it.
Publishing this here on CONNECT for fast 'Googling' for others who might encounter this problem.