Microsoft KB Archive/153250

Inventory Transfer During the Attach Process is Slow

Article ID: Q153250

= SYMPTOMS =

When a child site attaches to a parent site, it transfers the existing inventory in its database to its parent. It does so by dumping all the inventory from the database into four binary files. It then sends the binary files to its parent site, where the parent’s despooler reconstructs them into individual MIFs and sends them to the dataloader to be loaded into the parent site’s database. For Systems Management Server 1.0 and 1.1 this inventory transfer of a large database can take many hours to complete.

= RESOLUTION =

The inventory update process has been greatly enhanced in SMS 1.2. The child site now dumps the inventory information into multiple files using bulk operations. On the receiving end the data is put directly into the database again using bulk operations.

= STATUS =

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server version 1.1. This problem has been corrected in Systems Management Server version 1.2.

KBCategory: kbnetwork kbbug1.10 kbfix1.20 KBSubcategory: smsinv Additional reference words: prodsms 1.00 1.10 invupd.dll invupd

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