DOCUMENT:Q192859 04-MAR-2002 [sms] TITLE :SMS: SMS 1.2 SP4 Includes SMSIDDUP, DATDUPC, and DATDUPCL PRODUCT :Microsoft Systems Management Server PROD/VER::1.2 OPER/SYS: KEYWORDS:kbInventory smsinv ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information in this article applies to: - Microsoft Systems Management Server version 1.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY ======= Microsoft Systems Management Server version 1.2 Service Pack 4 includes the following three utilities to help resolve specific database issues: - SMSIDDUP: Duplicate SMSID Locator - DATDUPCK: Duplicate Data Key Checker - DATDUPCL: Duplicate Data Key Cleaner This article describes these utilities and their application. MORE INFORMATION ================ These utilities are located in the Support\Debug\ directory of the Systems Management Server 1.2 Service Pack 4 source. SMSIDDUP: Duplicate SMSID Locator --------------------------------- The duplicate SMSID locator generates a report, called Smsiddup.log, that contains computers that have duplicate SMSIDs. Usage: SMSIDDUP NOTE: If is NULL, use double quotation marks for the password field, as in the following example: SMSIDDUP SERVER sa "" SMSDB Alternatively, for interactive operation, you can use: SMSIDDUP Requirements: SMSIDDUP requires that the SQL Server for Systems Management Server is running Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Service Pack 3 or later. You should run SMSIDDUP from a computer that has the Systems Management Server Administrator program installed and functioning properly, to ensure that all required DLL files are available. Additional Information: In Systems Management Server, it is possible to have two different types of duplicates. The Systems Management Server Database Manager will locate first type of duplicate. Querying on this type duplicate in the Systems Management Server Administrator program will produce multiple records. However, the Systems Management Server Database Manager will NOT locate the second type of SMSID duplicate. In this situation, the data for a given machine in the current machine data table refers to a single machine. When a different machine using the same SMSID is inserted into the database, Systems Management Server moves the "old" machine data to the historical machine data table. In this case, Systems Management Server is not "aware" that there is more than one machine using the SMSID. Querying on the SMSID in the Systems Management Server Administrator program will produce a single record. Viewing the history for the Identification group in this record will show that the machine name changes frequently (the machine name does not actually change; multiple machines actually report using different names). SMSIDDUP locates this second type of SMSID duplicates. These duplicates can cause the Systems Management Server Dataloader to process machine MIF files very slowly or to stop responding. These duplicates may also lead to database corruption. This second type of SMSID duplicates are commonly the result of having a "cloned" Sms.ini file present (that is, an image install of a computer was done with an existing Sms.ini file in the image). To assist in cleaning up the second type of SMSID duplicates, SMSIDDUP produces a report containing the SMSID, site code, machine name, domain, and the Last Hardware Scan time from any of the second type of SMSID duplicates. You should delete these machines from the SMS database, and also delete their Sms.ini files. After deleting the machines from the database and also deleting their associated Sms.ini files, you can reinventory these machines, and they will be assigned a new unique SMSID. As history and unused common/specific records are removed from the database, remnants of the second type of duplicates will be removed. If the Sms.ini files on these clients are not deleted and the machines are simply deleted from the database, they will reappear in the database after their next inventory, and you must repeat the cleanup process. To completely eliminate this problem, the Sms.ini file on the client must be deleted. DATDUPCK: Duplicate Data Key Checker ------------------------------------ The duplicate data key checker generates a report, called Datdupck.log, that lists rows in the SMS database with duplicate datakey values. Usage: DATDUPCK Alternatively, for interactive operation, you can use: DATDUPCK Requirements: DATDUPCK requires that the SQL Server for Systems Management Server is running Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Service Pack 3 or later. You should run DATDUPCK from a computer that has the Systems Management Server Administrator program installed and functioning properly, to ensure that all required DLL files are available. Additional Information: When using Systems Management Server 1.2 Service Pack 2 or earlier to attach sites to one another, it is possible for information in the SMS database to be duplicated incorrectly. Symptoms of this may appear in data that is stored as COMMON rather than SPECIFIC according to the DMTF specifications. Examples of this would be in the PC_BIOS or Disk data, although any COMMON storage may be affected. Symptoms may be displayed as a duplicate drive C or no drive A for certain systems. Other symptoms may exhibit themselves as well, depending on the state of the child and parent databases before the site attachment. For more information, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Q168565 SMS: Child Site Attachment May Result in Incorrect Inventory DATDUPCL: Duplicate Data Key Cleaner ------------------------------------ The duplicate data key cleaner cleans duplicate datakey inventory from the database. Usage: DATDUPCL Alternatively, for interactive operation, you can use: DATDUPCL Requirements: DATDUPCL requires that the SQL Server for Systems Management Server is running Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Service Pack 3 or later. You should run DATDUPCL from a computer that has the Systems Management Server Administrator program installed and functioning properly, to ensure that all required DLL files are available. Additional Information: The SMS database should be in single user mode, to ensure that no users or SMS services are accessing the database at the time DATDUPCL runs. You should make sure that all SMS services are stopped and no Systems Management Server Administrator consoles are running against the database while DATDUPCL runs. WARNING: DATDUPCL modifies the SMS database. Before using DATDUPCL, execute these DBCC commands from ISQL/W or the SQL Enterprise Manager: dbcc checkdb dbcc newalloc Refer to the "Examining the Error Log and DBCC Output" topic in the SQL Server Books Online and verify that there are no errors. If any errors are returned, do NOT execute DATDUPCL. Instead, contact Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS). If no errors are returned, perform a dump of the SMS database and then proceed. Depending on the number of duplicate datakey entries, DATDUPCL can delete a large amount of information from your SMS database. It is necessary to delete this information to clean the duplicate datakeys; the information will be reported by means of hardware and software inventory at the next inventory interval. Because DATDUPCL can delete a large amount of information, you must ensure that your SMS database log size and tempdb size are sufficient. The following are some good guidelines for these sizes: Tempdb size = (SMS database size * .25) SMS log size = (SMS database size * .35) Additional query words: prodsms sp sp4 sp3 sp2 data loader datalodr dataldr hang hangs hung sitecode ====================================================================== Keywords : kbInventory smsinv Technology : kbSMSSearch kbSMS120 Version : :1.2 Issue type : kbinfo ============================================================================= THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THE MICROSOFT KNOWLEDGE BASE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. 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