Microsoft KB Archive/146635

= Recursive File Collection When SMS Performs Inventory =

Article ID: 146635

Article Last Modified on 10/31/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.1 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q146635





SYMPTOMS
When a large Systems Management Server site performs inventory of files, the files are placed in the FILES.COL directory. When the site server performs a local inventory of files, it cannot distinguish the files in the FILES.COL directory. Therefore, the files are collected again, which creates extremely large .MIF files. The creation of large .MIF files causes the SMS Executive service to process for a long period of time (which causes backlogs of other processes).

Each time the site server performs inventory, duplicate files are collected, which creates duplicate .MIF files.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, do one of the following:


 * Do not collect files

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 * Manually remove the collected files frequently to reduce the number of files

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 * Disable the Inventory Agent service on the site server.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server version 1.1. It has been fixed in Systems Management Server version 1.2.

Additional query words: prodsms

Keywords: KB146635

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