fermt - I considered it, however there are a few drawbacks I see.
1 - We have a LOT of churn, nearly 1000 clients just over the weekend that no longer exist.
2 - Due to that, I would feel the cleanup would need to happen at least once a day. That will also clean up valid entries for Servers that stopped reporting for any number of “normal” reasons. Like, it being offline temporarily, if the client was corrupt, etc.
So, mainly with the remover, I just fear valid machines will slip through the cracks. It is my fall back though, if all else fails.
Thanks for the reply!