Re: Hardware Collection Problems

Have you checked any of the clients to see whether the hardware inventory
agent shows as enabled? You can check that status by opening the Systems
Managment program in Control Panel and look at the Components tab. If the
SMS Inventory Agent has been enabled, it will say so.

You might also pick one of the clients, select Hardware Inventory Cycle on
the Actions tab and click Initiate Action to force an inventory collection.

Check the Policyagent.log file on the client to see whether the client
received an update from the site that told it to enable hardware inventory.
Monitor the inventoryagent.log file for the actual action of the agent
collecting the inventory data. Any errors should be recorded in either of
these files.

You can also view status messages from the client regarding inventory
activity by running a status message query through the SMS Admin Console. A
good existing query to start with would be the All Status Messages From A
Specific System.

I hope this info will get you pointed in the right direction!

Steve Kaczmarek
Technical Writer
WEMD-UE
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

"Rich" <Rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:0C810F98-B4EA-4692-BD24-2624C52ECB71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I recently upgraded from my evaluation copy of SMS to a fullly licensed
>copy.
> Everything seemed to be up and running until I realized that no clients
> had
> any Hardware Collection information (even though that is one of the agents
> I
> have turned on) No errors or warnings are coming up and I even cleaned
> and
> reinstalled a test client to see if that collected the information with no
> luck. This version has been up and running for about a week now and I
> have
> my hardware collection set to run every day. Anyone have any advice as to
> why this may be happening?


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