RE: SMS 2003 Query Software Distribution Status


Sure, but if you reread my rerun statements you would note that
advertisement 2, actually corresponds to my point 1 in rerunning.

Being an advertisement that has multiple schedules.

If you add an extra advertisement time, to an advertisement you
essentially make it a recurring advertisement. Recurring advertisements
rerun on all systems, failed & successful alike.

So in your environment, clients that failed once would then rerun the
advertisement once every hour which is most likely not what you want to
achieve.

I don't really see a way of automating the rerun on failed clients, with
standard sms components. With scripting it might be feasible though.

My personal feeling though is to take another look at the inhouse
package and figure out why it fails in such a large number of
installations.

Kim Oppalfens
MVP SMS
In article <CC56959E-5888-48E6-B276-693D957414FD@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
BrianCfromBoulder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> Hi! Thank you for listing out the different re-run possibilities in SMS. This
> reaffirms my understanding and gives a common ground to discuss what it is
> that I wanted to achieve with the collection based upon failed run.
>
> I might be over thinking this and would appreciate any further thoughts
> around what I'm trying to do.
>
> Goal: To automatically run failed events that will not re-try. To produce
> reports on 1st run failures.
>
> Solution:
> Advertisement 1 is sent and fails on 15% of our systems due to advertisement
> time out, program exceeded run time. The error is due to the in-house package
> is "stuck". A re-run typically fixes this. The package can take up 3hrs to
> run.
>
> Advertisement 2 is sent to the advertisement failed collection with
> advertisement set to run every hour. This way the advertisement will not
> re-run on successful systems and will eventually install on systems that
> failed due to timeout.
>
> Thank you again!
>
> "Kim Oppalfens" wrote:
>
> >
> > Erm, ok time to admin something, I never fully read your post, I just
> > noticed you had a query you didn't get working and started searching on
> > the query.
> >
> > Now that I see you wanted this for rerunning an advertisement I might as
> > well tell you a thing or two about re-running advertisements.
> >
> > This is what you should know about rerunning advertisements:
> >
> > 1) If you add an extra assignment time to an advertisement that already
> > had an assignment time (which is not ASAP, logon, or logoff). The
> > advertisement reruns on all clients including the successful ones.
> >
> > 2) If you create a new advertisement with the exact same program to the
> > same collection, the advertisement only reruns on the failed clients.
> >
> > 3) If you want to force an advertisement to rerun that did not have an
> > assignment time to begin with on all clients (the ones that did launch
> > manually and the ones that didn't). You will have to create a new
> > program within the package and a new advertisement (with an assignment)
> > for this program.
> >
> > 4) If you want to rerun on a single client, we can delete the job on an
> > sms 2.0 or sms 2003 legacy client, or some reg tweak wmi

--
Kim Oppalfens
MVP SMS
Computacenter Belgium
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