Microsoft KB Archive/166833

= SMS: Failed Status MIF Does Not Update Job Status =

Article ID: 166833

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.2 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q166833



SYMPTOMS
The Package Command Manager (PCM) status MIF contains an InstallStatus Group that has two attributes: Status and Description. If the Status attribute is set to "Failed", the status in the job detail does not reflect a job failure, but rather a "retrying" status.



CAUSE
If a program writes a .mif file to the Windows directory, Package Command Manager collects the file and places it in the Despoolr.box directory specified by the ResultsSharePoint entry in the client's Sms.ini file. The date and time of the .mif file must be later than the date and time specified for the job start time, or Package Command Manager will not collect the file.

The Status attribute set in the status .mif file determines the status reported back to the originating site. If a job has a status of Failed, Systems Management Server should perform the following steps:

 Change the site job status to "Retrying". The job will eventually fail after a period of time.  Write an event in the site server's Event Log. The Event ID is 374, and the Description is: The workstation install job has failed on workstation in Domain, the description generated by the setup script is .

MachineName =  SiteCode =  Component = SMS_DESPOOLER JobID =  JobDestination = "                   



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server version 1.2. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.



MORE INFORMATION
The following is an example of a Status MIF: START COMPONENT NAME = "WORKSTATION" START GROUP NAME = "ComponentID" ID = 1 CLASS = "DMTF|ComponentID|1.0" START ATTRIBUTE NAME = "Manufacturer" ID = 1 ACCESS = READ-ONLY STORAGE = SPECIFIC TYPE = STRING(45) VALUE = "Jamalz" END ATTRIBUTE START ATTRIBUTE NAME = "Product" ID = 2 ACCESS = READ-ONLY STORAGE = SPECIFIC TYPE = STRING(45) VALUE = "JamalTest" END ATTRIBUTE START ATTRIBUTE NAME = "Version" ID = 3 ACCESS = READ-ONLY STORAGE = SPECIFIC TYPE = STRING(45) VALUE = "3.15" END ATTRIBUTE START ATTRIBUTE NAME = "Serial Number" ID = 4 ACCESS = READ-ONLY STORAGE = SPECIFIC TYPE = STRING(45) VALUE = "01122121r" END ATTRIBUTE START ATTRIBUTE NAME = "Installation" ID = 5 ACCESS = READ-ONLY STORAGE = SPECIFIC TYPE = STRING(45) VALUE = "12/12/95" END ATTRIBUTE END GROUP START GROUP NAME = "InstallStatus" ID = 2 CLASS = "MICROSOFT|JOBSTATUS|1.0" START ATTRIBUTE NAME = "Status" ID = 1 ACCESS = READ-ONLY STORAGE = SPECIFIC TYPE = STRING(45) VALUE = "Success" END ATTRIBUTE START ATTRIBUTE NAME = "Description" ID = 2 ACCESS = READ-ONLY STORAGE = SPECIFIC TYPE = STRING(45) VALUE = "ErrorJamalz" END ATTRIBUTE END GROUP END COMPONENT

Additional query words: prodsms pcm mif

Keywords: kbbug kbdespooler kbnetwork kbpcm kbpending KB166833

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