SMS: Clients that Are Not in the Targeted Collection Are Executing Programs (227032)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0
This article was previously published under Q227032

SUMMARY

When advertising a program to a collection you may find other clients in your site executing the program even though they are not in the targeted collection. Not only will the clients execute the program but they will also create a status message stating the success or failure of the program that was executed. For example, if you advertise to a collection that contains fifty client machines and you receive over fifty status messages stating that the program was run, you can safely assume that clients that were not in the collection ran the program.

MORE INFORMATION

The most plausible reason for this problem to occur is having clients that were installed under a previous site with the same site code. The Offer Data Provider (ODP) on the client looks for the existence of the following lookup files on the local machine during its polling cycle:


  • The lookup file for the System Resource type: <WINDIR>\MS\SMS\CLICOMP\SWDIST32\CAP\<SiteCode>Systm.lkp
  • The lookup file for the User Resource type: <WINDIR>\MS\SMS\CLICOMP\SWDIST32\CAP\<USERNAME>\<SiteCode>User.lkp
  • The lookup file for the User Group Resource type: <WINDIR>\MS\SMS\CLICOMP\SWDIST32\CAP\<USERNAME>\<SiteCode>Usrgp.lkp


If the ODP finds a lookup file on the local machine it will use it instead of the lookup file on the CAP. The lookup file contains information about which instruction file the client is to use. If the client was installed under a different site it would most likely use a different instruction file than the one it should be using under the new site. To verify if you have clients using the wrong instruction complete the following steps:

  • Open up the local lookup files located on the client in Notepad and note which instruction files are being referenced.
  • Open up the lookup files on the CAP using Notepad to search for the same resource (System, User or User Group) and reference which instruction file is being used.
  • If the lookup files on the CAP list different instruction files for the same resource than the lookup files on the client, the client is using an out of date lookup file.
To resolve this problem either delete all of the lookup files on the client or uninstall and then reinstall the Systems Management Server components on that particular machine.

A package can be created that will search for and delete all files that have an .lkp extension in the <WINDIR>\MS\SMS\CLICOMP\SWDIST32 directory on the client. Advertise this package/program to all clients in your site. The next time you advertise a program to these clients a new local lookup file will be created that will point these clients to the correct instruction file.

REFERENCES

Please refer to the Systems Management Server Administrators Guide and the BackOffice Resource Kit version 4.5 for more information about the software distribution process.
Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:6/14/2005
Keywords:kbAdvertisement kbBug kbCAP kbClient kbCollections kbinfo kbnofix kbPackage kbSoftwareDist KB227032
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