Microsoft KB Archive/193746

= SMS: Resync File Cleaner - Dumpsync.exe =

Article ID: 193746

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 Q193746



SUMMARY
Dumpsync.exe, a utility available in the Microsoft BackOffice Resource Kit, cleans the Resync.cfg file on all Systems Management Server logon servers in a domain.



MORE INFORMATION
When the information in a MIF file is not synchronized with the database, Systems Management Server sends a resync request to the client containing the MIF file. Systems Management Server does so by having a Resync.cfg file on each Systems Management Server logon server. This file contains (among other things) an SMSID and the time of the resync request.

When a client connects to a Systems Management Server logon server, the client checks the Resync.cfg file for the client's SMSID. If the ID is found, the client sends a complete inventory and marks the inventory file as being a resync file. (The client also keeps track of when it sent the inventory, so on future reads of the Resync.cfg file, the client will not resend the information unless the time of the request in the resync file changes.)

Systems Management Server never cleans the Resync.cfg file, which means that the file keeps growing. The DUMPSYNC utility cleans the Resync.cfg file. DUMPSYNC must be run from Sms\Site.srv\Invdom.box\domain.000 for each domain you want to clean.

Maintenance Manager copies files from the Site.srv\Maincfg.box\Invdom.box \Domain.000 and Site.srv\Maincfg.box\Invdom.box\Domain.000\Invencfg.box directories to Logon.srv on the appropriate domains. However, Maintenance Manager does not delete files from the logon servers if they are removed from the Site.srv directory. A simple fix for this is to delete all the .cfg files from Logon.srv\Invencfg.box directory on all logon servers. If files are still necessary, Maintenance Manager will move them back.

DUMPSYNC Syntax
dumpsync [days]  [/Dump] Options                   Description ---

days                      All clients with a resync request in Resync.cfg more than [days] days old are removed from the Resync.cfg file, and their Smsid.cfg files are deleted from the Site.srv\Maincfg.box\Invdom.box \Domain.000\Invencfg.box directory.

/Dump                     Displays the contents of the Resync.cfg file.

Additional query words: prodsms

Keywords: kbinfo kbinventory kbsmsutil KB193746

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