What I would do, if that is somehow important to you… get a consultant in that thoroughly understands both CM and non-CM databases, and SRS. THOROUGHLY.
from your offline inventory (whatever that may be), that consultant, because by design you’ve made sure they know how… they come up with a process to import whatever that offline inventory flat file is (that you apparently have on a USB Stick) gets imported into some custom database--a database which is completely unconnected with CM--on a different server, likely. that consultant, because by design you’ve made sure they know how… they come up with an SRS report (or dozens of SRS reports) that uses both the datasources of your CM database and your completely custom--just for these offline boxes from a USB stick data--which joins the data into reports you care about. But… in my opinion, CM is NOT the place to store this offline gathered information. There is no supported method to import it “into CM”. From: Daniel Ratliff Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2014 10:06 AM To: [email protected] Don’t forget what Phil said below, you can manually create DDRs but how are you going to keep them updated? You will need to configure your maintenance tasks accordingly for inactive and obsolete clients. Daniel Ratliff From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 10:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mssms] Offline inventory with SCCM nope. Sent from Windows Mail From: JRIT Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2014 10:49 AM To: [email protected] I will do this research for a scripted inventory. When I have this dumped, is there any problem to import this in SCCM, using a supported way, just to have a centralized report? Tnx 2014-04-02 10:58 GMT-03:00 <[email protected]>: Since the machines are 100% disconnected, I'd forget about trying to keep the data ‘alive’ in your CM database. That’s really not the place for it. I just did a quick web search, and there are lots of hits for ‘scripted inventory’. Pick one and experiment until you find something that works for you. Or you can write your own to pull what you care about out of wmi or the registry and dump it to a .csv file. From: Jason Wallace Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2014 8:35 AM To: [email protected] Yes, if you are looking at developing a solution which will allow you to track assets on a long term basis then SCCM is likely NOT the product for you. You could craft something from SCCM, linking into Service Manager and, with some additional Management Packs be able to end up with a half decent asset management solution. It would however be an incredibly large sledgehammer to crack an extremely small nut. You would still need to provide your offline solution. If you are looking to gather information from the offline devices then you should start with http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.02.windowspowershell.aspx to use Powershell (assuming that these offline devices support it) or VBScript to generate reports based upon the WMI classes and attributes which you decide to deploy - I am sure that if you wished you could somehow parse SMSDEF.MOF to gather that which SMS picks up. From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [mssms] Offline inventory with SCCM Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 13:10:00 +0000 No. I agree with Jason, ConfigMgr is not an asset or CMDB. At this point, you’re going out of your way to develop a rather convoluted process for tracking information on a handful of machines when you can just factor that information in after the fact. To have that data be imported and usable, you would have to create DDRs for the computers…but they would never get updated, so they would eventually purge out anyway. -Phil From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of JRIT Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2014 9:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mssms] Offline inventory with SCCM I have this machines as OFFLINE because I can connect this on the Internet or LAN, this is some stand-alone machines, I can access this by logging locally. If possible I could go locally, run some script, get the information and have this on my SCCM for count Windows, Office and other applications. Any idea? Thanks a lot, 2014-04-02 9:02 GMT-03:00 Jason Wallace <[email protected]>: I would say that there is little point having something in your SCCM database without wanting to DO something with that information such as deploy updates or software to the machine, or to enforce settings. All of these would require that the device be online in some form. If the intention is to use SCCM simply as a CMDB then probably not the best use of resources. From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mssms] Offline inventory with SCCM Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 11:51:27 +0000 I'm going to go with “no”, or at least “not easily”. What about… Intune? Direct Access? how “offline” is “offline”? if, for example, you were to get something to query WMI on those machines and create something to send… how would it be sent or picked up? Are those boxes truly behind an impenetrable firewall? From: JRIT Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2014 6:21 AM To: [email protected] Folks, Is there a way to get info from a OFFLINE desktop and input this on SCCM 2012 R2? I have some locations with Offline machines, but I want to track SW and HW inventory. Thanks PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL. 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