SMS: Site/Domain Changes Are Processed Automatically (167777)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.2 SP2
This article was previously published under Q167777

SUMMARY

Included with Service Pack 2 for Systems Management Server 1.2 is new functionality that allows a Systems Management Server client's inventory to be "moved" in a multiple site hierarchy.

With all prior versions of Systems Management Server, a client's inventory would not be automatically deleted from an old site's database if the client started reporting to a new one. The administrator would have had to delete the old client record manually, by using the Systems Management Server Administrator program.

MORE INFORMATION

The following steps describe what is involved when a client starts reporting to a new site/domain combination:

  1. When a Systems Management Server client detects a site or domain change, the client inventory agent updates the Sms.ini file with the new values and sends up a full resynchronization (resync) inventory to the new Systems Management Server logon server.
  2. The Dataloader service at the new site compares the client's inventory to the record (if any) in the database to see if the client's site code has changed. If there is no existing client inventory record, the .mif file is processed normally and no further action is taken by the Dataloader service.
  3. If the site code for the client is different, the Dataloader computes the site that would be the lowest in the hierarchy, yet still able to tell the old-site from the new-site. This computed site is called the cross-site, and is the only site from which the actual movement is "commanded." The cross-site is important because it prevents more than one site from sending delete MIFs.
  4. If the current site is the cross-site, the tree of sites immediately below the cross-site that the client used to report to is computed and each one added to an "old-site" list.
  5. The client inventory .mif file that initiated all of this is processed normally and then passed up to the parent site (if any). Any sites above the cross-site evaluate the .mif file in the same fashion, but will not take any further action, because they determine themselves not to be the cross-site.
  6. For each primary site in the old-site list, a small delete MIF is created for this particular client, which is then handed to the site reporter service running on the cross-site.
  7. The site reporter creates one or more mini-jobs (system jobs) to send these delete MIFs to the specific target primary sites.
  8. The losing-sites receives the delete MIF and processes a simple delete just as if it came from the Systems Management Server Administrator program. This action also revokes the Systems Management Server client license from the License Manager as well.
Administrators should still use the Systems Management Server Database Manager (Dbclean.exe) to purge Unused Common/Specific Records and old history. The small delete MIF mentioned above only does a simple task in the database of moving the deleted client into history.

The log file created by the Dataloader service, Datalodr.log, contains specific entries for this new functionality to show what the service is doing.
Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:6/14/2005
Keywords:kbDataLoader kbInventory kbnetwork KB167777
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