Secunia is the primary reason I do software inventory. Secunia requires an inventory of exe dll and ocx. I can chose to collect that information using SCCM, Secunia's agent, or a remote scan. All of these methods are going to scan the entire hard drive and collect information for all executables. From my standpoint, I would rather use the SCCM agent to do this so that I have the information in the SCCM db for me to use for other stuff. I could also install Secunia's CSI agent, but it is still going to scan the entire hard drive and look at every exe dll and ocx.
Anyway, my question was not about the merits of doing software inventory, but rather how to get it to work in an environment where you put computers to sleep. WOL only wakes a computer for 2 minutes, which is not long enough to get much of anything done. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Sandys Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 1:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [mssms] RE: Keep awake for inventory Not true to my knowledge. Per-user installs still properly register themselves with Windows and thus are returned via AI. And of course, just because an exe exists on a system, does not mean the product is installed and is not necessarily indicative of a certain product/suite either; e.g., word.exe does not mean Office 2010 Pro is installed. J From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Miller, Todd Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 12:31 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] RE: Keep awake for inventory It is really hard to say. Looking at the inventory log file it just shows hardware inventory messages piling up. Software inventory doesn't really write much to the log while it is running - so it is hard to guess what the process might be. I am still on 2007 - it doesn't have a bunch of "beginning software inventory messgaes" without ends. It just has a begin in there from a few days ago. Maybe it will not restart on its own. Asset intelligence only lets you know about software that was installed normally. With the way that people are moving to have their software install without admin rights in the user's profile, it is less and less useful. The software like that is also the stuff that is most concerning. None of that really answers the question about keeping a machine awake long enough for inventory processes to run. SCCM keeps a machine awake for pending software installation - I'd think it would do that for pending inventory jobs as well. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Mott Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 11:06 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] RE: Keep awake for inventory On a side note, does it pick up where it left off or does it start over? Seems like it starts over actually, or did in 07 From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Miller, Todd Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 10:20 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] Keep awake for inventory When a computer begins SWINV it takes something like 1 hour to complete. My trouble is that computers fall asleep during SWINV. Computers that are lightly used are hardly ever left on long enough to complete the inventory process. I have advertisements that go out occasionally that will use WOL to wake up machines, but a computer will go back to sleep after 2 minutes if it is sent a WOL and there is not activity from the user. Why doesn't HWINV and SWINV count as "activity" to keep the computer from going back to sleep? Is there a setting I could make that would keep the computer awake so that SWINV could complete when the computer wakes up via WOL? I know there is a power setting for how long Widows 7 will stay awake from WOL, but that setting is not available in SCCM power management. I don't think you can (or that it is a smart idea to) set some power settings via Group Policy or registry edits and some via SCCM power management. As I ratcheted up more aggressive power savings, I am finding that SCCM is having more and more trouble keeping the machine's information up to date. 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