Site Maintenance Task Best Practice

As per our understanding,  we need to either enable "Clear Install Flag" task or "Delete Inactive Client Discovery Data" task.
please do let us know, what will be consequences if we enabled the both tasks & what are the best practices.
Prashant Patil

Clear Install Flag
task is highly dependent on heartbeat discovery. If you install client on computer and heartbeat sent the information to Site making its Install flag as Active in Database and at later stage ,If you uninstall client,still the Install Flag will be active
until it is discovered by heartbeat Discovery. When the client is not discovered by Heartbeat discovery,Install Flag will be cleared.
As a thumb rule,When
enabling this task, set the Client Rediscovery period to
an interval longer than the Heartbeat Discovery schedule.
More information about how Clear Install Flag works is given here  http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jgilbert/archive/2008/10/18/client-is-installed-flag-explained.aspx
Delete Inactive Client Discovery Data:
suggest you to look at technet document,its clearly explained http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb693646.aspx 
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