Microsoft KB Archive/145581

Recursive File Collection when SMS Inventories/Collects Files

PSS ID Number: Q145581 Article last modified on 02-16-1996

1.10

WINDOWS

= SYMPTOMS =

When a large site is configured to inventory and collect files, these files eventually end up in the FILES.COL directory. When the site server inventories itself, it has no way to distinguish the files in this directory and collects them again, creating extremely large MIF files.

These MIFs cause the SMS Executive service to spend hours processing them, backlogging everything else. Additionally, these duplicate MIFs collected by the server end up in the FILES.COl directory magnifying the problem by two each time the server does its own inventory.

= RESOLUTION =

There are three workarounds that can be currently done to resolve this issue:


 * Do not collect files.
 * Manually delete collected files often enough to keep the number low.
 * 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. We are researching this problem and will post new information in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

KBCategory: kbother KBSubCategory: smsinv Additional reference words: prodsms 1.1 ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1996.