Re: Network resources not being discovered by SMS (2.0)

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From: Kim Oppalfens (kim_at_computacenter.nospam)
Date: 10/15/04 

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:00:22 +0200

We need more info to troubleshoot this effectively. What discovery
methods have you enabled? Do you have an active directory environment or
an nt4 domain? Do you use a microsoft dhcp server or static ip addresses
or a third party dhcp server?

Resources dissapearing is because they haven't been discovered again,
and so the database maintenance task cleans them out.

Kim Oppalfens

In article <7D5EDD4A-A0E8-4094-AC6C-3CB9F234B2CC@microsoft.com>,
SMSNewbieintheBlock@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> We have a primary site that has a number of secondary sites. The IP
> boundaries are properly set in each of the site properties. However, SMS
> will not detect all the resources even though they are qualified clients such
> as the PCs running MS Windows (nt, 2000, xp). Running a scan using a third
> party tool, I am able to detect the system and get some info about the system
> such as it's netbios name, IP address, OS, etc.
>
> What would be the best method/way to do so that all network resources
> Windows, Systems, Routers, Printer Servers, etc. can at least be detected and
> displayed in the SMS console...and then push the SMS client agent to all
> qualified Windows systems successfully?
>
> I thought may be it the rights into the client PC...but most of them do have
> the proper admin credentials...at least, these system should come up. Could
> somebody kidly explain exactly what I need to have SMS discover all qualified
> clients and have the agent pushed successfully? Thank you.
>
> Lately, (actually) just today, without any changes on the current settings
> nor network, a number of previuosly detected client in one of the secondary
> sites have vanished from the collection. What could have caused this...
>
> Please help :-(
> SMS Newbie in the Block
>
>
> 

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