Re: Question about "Install Flag"
- From: "Kim Oppalfens" <Kim dot Oppalfens@google mail.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:48:12 +0200
Could you verify whether the re-installed machines get assigned correctly?
If they are not than the push won't start.
On a side note, although I am more than willing to try and help you with a
technical solution for this, the only good solution here is to tell
these admins that if they redeploy a station, they should send you a mail
once they have finished the redeployment stating the name of the machine.
You don't just go running around re-imaging systems without notifying
anyone, it's called procedure. I know I don't need to explain this to you,
but somebody has got
to put it on their plate.
--
Kim Oppalfens
Telindus Belgium
MVP Windows Server System - SMS
"Sasi" <Sasi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:DF2FA38E-CCAB-4BAC-8F2E-A2CAE4A102E7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> logon installation?I don't have any logon script . is it
> nessecary?according
> to SMS documentations the settings I mentioned before are enough to
> trigger
> an advanced client push installation;but it does not work.
> as all of our client machines are 2kpro and xppro,capinst and legacy
> client
> installations are of no concern to me.I want to trigger an advanced client
> installation automaticcaly ,without any scripts.
>
> "Kerwin Medina [MSFT]" wrote:
>
>> How about logon installation then? In your logon script, you can add
>> capinst
>> to it. If the advanced client is already installed, then nothing will
>> happen. If there is no client yet, then a CCR gets submitted and the
>> client
>> is pushed.
>>
>> "Sasi" <Sasi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:5B3DE3E8-4D63-41D4-A7B0-79E7A2169CE1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > you know;this is my actual problem:
>> >
>> > I have a win2003 domain.I installed SMS2003 and enabled client push
>> > installation and active directory system discovery agent and almost all
>> > machine on my domain recieved the sms client successfully on the first
>> > run.
>> >
>> > there are some administrators in my company that regularly format
>> > client
>> > machines and re-jion them to the active directory,using exactly their
>> > old
>> > names.these administrators are not that professional that I can teach
>> > them
>> > SMS.and because this reformat and reinstallation process happens quite
>> > frequently and non-predictably;I can't track those reinstalled machines
>> > and
>> > install SMS client on them individually either.I can't even ask those
>> > administrators to list refreshed machines;because sometimes they don't
>> > remember them themselves!
>> >
>> > so I want a mechanism to regularly detect newly installed client
>> > machines
>> > and trrigger SMS client Installation on them.these are the actions that
>> > I've
>> > done already;but have not reached what I wanted:
>> >
>> > 1.activated AD_System_Discovery_Agent to run on a daily basis on 12Pm
>> > everyday(to make sure that all clients are up at the discovery time).
>> > 2.activated HEARTBEAT_DISCOVERY to send heatbeats every 4 hours.
>> > 3.activated SQL maintainance task "Clear Install flag" to clear install
>> > flag
>> > of those clients that have not sent heartbeat in the past 3 days.this
>> > task
>> > runs everyday on 12am and according to logs;ends successfully and DOES
>> > resets
>> > the flag.
>> >
>> > with the above-mentioned settings;I expect the clients to be
>> > automatically
>> > installed after atmost 4 days after their OS refresh;but that does not
>> > happen.for example I currently have a machine which has past 14 days
>> > from
>> > its
>> > OS reinstallation;but has not recieved the client yet.its name even has
>> > not
>> > been mentioned in CCM log of SMS server for a CCR request.even when I
>> > manually remove those old records from console;CCR does not trigger.
>> >
>> > with the point that I DO NOT WANT to assign SMS client using Active
>> > directory;and prefer the SMS to discover and install clients itself;I
>> > kindly
>> > ask you to help me resolve this issue.
>> >
>> > thanks
>> > Sasan.
>> >
>> > "Kerwin Medina [MSFT]" wrote:
>> >
>> >> When you delete a system record (which resides in the SYSTEM_DATA
>> >> table),
>> >> you are also removing the corresponding entries for its discovery
>> >> record
>> >> (which resides in the SYSTEM_DISC table).
>> >>
>> >> DDM, when it processes a DDR, it looks at the SYSTEM_DISC table to see
>> >> if
>> >> the client is already installed and if the global push flag is
>> >> enabled.
>> >> If
>> >> so, this causes DDM to generate a CCR which then triggers a client
>> >> install.
>> >>
>> >> So, the answer to your question would be, yes. In the absence of a
>> >> system
>> >> record (and discovery record), DDM will generate a CCR for an incoming
>> >> DDR
>> >> (assusming that global push is enabled), which should then cause the
>> >> client
>> >> to be installed.
>> >>
>> >> Note however that when you remove a system record, the inventory that
>> >> is
>> >> associated with that record gets lost. Why don't you just do a
>> >> targetted
>> >> push to those machines that you want to install the client to?
>> >>
>> >> "Sasi" <Sasi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> >> news:035A2F1C-0F9E-437E-A3F7-897E46278822@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >> > Does deleting the discovered client from the SMS database (using SMS
>> >> > console)
>> >> > resets the install flag of that client?
>> >> >
>> >> > I want to know whether just removing a client from the console ,is
>> >> > enough
>> >> > for Client Push Installation to trigger installation on
>> >> > re-discovered
>> >> > client;or I have to run "clear install flag" maintanance task in
>> >> > addition
>> >> > to
>> >> > deleting and re-discovering the client.
>> >> >
>> >> > I want to make sure that a client that is previously discovered and
>> >> > installed ;gets SMS client installed automatically,if it is
>> >> > reformated
>> >> > and
>> >> > has the OS reinstalled and re-joined to the active directory using
>> >> > its
>> >> > old
>> >> > name.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>
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