Re: SMS AD Systems Discovery
From: Sean Chitwood [MSFT] (seanchit_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/14/04
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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:36:19 -0700
Seay--
Yes, that would work.
--Sean
-- ------------------------------------------ This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Seay" <seay@mail.com> wrote in message news:%23$HGVHfmEHA.2020@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... > So to avoid the poster's dilemma of dead accounts, they can clean out > their WINS and DNS so it will not resolve to an IP? > > > > "Sean Chitwood [MSFT]" <seanchit@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:OEYj9%23bmEHA.1652@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... >> Zane-- >> Here is the process AD System Discovery goes through: >> >> 1) Depending on the setting for recursion queries either the direct >> container you targeted or underneath the container. We also get the >> operatingSystem and operatingSystemVersion fields from AD. >> 2) (optional in SP1) Queries all the groups in the container and its >> children, also groups that systems it has found are members of. This can >> be very intensive. >> 3) Resolves the names into IP addresses >> 4) Queries the DC to get the AD Site Name and (if defined in AD) the IP >> Subnet. This is done in batches of 100 to reduce the traffic to the DC. >> 5) Writes out the DDRs >> >> Your overall question seems to be "Can I find dead computer entries in >> AD?", the answer is yes, if the account is in AD and the name resolves to >> a IP address, you will get an entry in the SMS database. >> >> --Sean >> -- >> ------------------------------------------ >> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no >> rights. >> >> "Zane" <zane@mzail.com> wrote in message >> news:Ovp6AVamEHA.592@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... >>> When SMS AD system discovery perform a scan...what is it actually doing? >>> Is it going to AD container you specified and retrieving COMPUTER NAMES >>> only or is it actually verifying it? Please clarify. >>> >>> No connection to the clients is made. >>> >>> in reality, these resources could be DEAD resources in AD...that still >>> has DNS/WINS entries? >>> >>> Are you saying that a computer account can exist in AD but may no longer >>> have DNS/WINS (due to scavenging) thus will NOT create a resource in the >>> Collections? If it did have an an IP record in DNS/WINS it WILL then >>> create resource in Collections? >>> >>> So the 2nd verification is the IP check from DNS/WINS? >>> >>> I am trying to determine the verfication process of how resources are >>> added into Collections from AD System Discovery ONLY >>> >>> >>> Anyone clarify these? Thankyou. >>> >> >> > >
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