Microsoft KB Archive/304668

= You Cannot Remove Unnecessary Computers from the All Computers View =

Article ID: 304668

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 Service Pack 1

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This article was previously published under Q304668



SYMPTOMS
Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2000 maintains a list of all known computers in the database. These computers are listed in the All Computers view in the Monitor node in the MOM Administrator console.

This view is populated by using the Managed Computer Rule (MCR). The list includes both current computers that match the MCR and computers that matched the MCR in the past. This can cause computers of the following types to be listed:
 * Computers that are no longer managed by MOM 2000
 * Computers that may have qualified as a MOM target, but on which the agent was not installed



CAUSE
There is no command or option in the All Computers view to remove computers that are not available or that you do not want MOM to monitor.

Additionally, the All Computers view lists all computer that were discovered by MOM by using the MCR. Therefore, if the MCR was created with a wildcard, all computers that match the MCR may be listed whether or not the MOM agent was installed on a computer.



WORKAROUND
To remove these computers, contact Microsoft Product Support Services:

http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

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