Keep in mind that the problem with SW inventory is the 4 hour timeout
(runtime). Once the 4 hour time hits, everything the computer inventory is
thrown away! Yes I said it is thrown away. The result will never be returned to
CM. This allows for old data to get struck in the CM database and it
While SW inventory is basically a file inventory and the recommendation is to
use HW inventory, how do you handle software that do not write data into
Add/Remove Programs like open source software that are installed using ZIP
files? (Eg. Apache Tomcat, Apache Maven, Eclipse, etc) Do you need to
Hardware inventory. Software Inventory in ConfigMgr is a file inventory and
does not necessarily reflect actually installed software. If you need to know
about explicit files on a system, like all .psts, then software inventory is
great. For generic scans of all files though, it's not very
Anyone else seeing this, I just got an alert that the threshold was crossed on
my "definitions older than three days" collection.
Ours are from WSUS, a quick check sees things go south yesterday with
1.245.1173.0, the latest (today) is 1.247.25.0 has the highest reported failure
rate.
The
HW inventory actually collected add/remove programs not actually hardware.
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Subject: [EXTERNAL][mssms] RE: Hardware
I don't use it at all, I avoid it alike the plague! I will use CI or HW
inventory or anything else but it.
BTW, here is another blog post on the subject.
https://www.enhansoft.com/blog/slow-software-inventory-cycle-in-sccm-2012
Garth Jones
Chief Architect
Configuration Manager/SCCM
ConfigMgr Software Inventory should be called SW inventory. Instead it should
be called File inventory. And it is slower than molasses. Hardware Inventory is
what you should be using. This is where all the good stuff is, AI Data,
Add/Remove programs. Etc..
Here are a couple of the blog I have
Thank you. We currently have heartbeat discovery set to daily. What do you
use for SW inventory if not ConfigMgr?
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Thanks.
What are you using in place of Software Inventory? Third party software? Or
just not collecting the data regularly?
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Have you see Sherry's IE Mof edit to collect this via HW inventory?
Did you see that I will be creating a full SSRS report set for either IE
inventory or .Net Inventory, for a giveaway next month? So make sure that you
vote for the one you want.
HW for the win once a day (but a sheepish 750 machines compared to you all.)
SW for a one off report like Internet Explorer inventory. Seriously only ever
use the SW inventory for a specific file name to get version.
Otherwise as most all will say. SW inventory is useless.
From:
In general, I recommend HW to be setup daily and SW inventory to be disabled,
as it is useless! If SW is not disabled then set to every 14 days. BTW
Heartbeat discovery I also recommend be set to daily too.
Keep in mind that ConfigMgr is NOT a CMDB.
Garth Jones
Chief Architect
Configuration
Yes, we have told them that.
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Subject: [mssms] RE: Hardware Inventory
ConfigMgr is not an asset management system. It would be
+1
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+1
Jimmy Martin
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From:
+1
Jimmy Martin
(901) 227-8209
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Subject: [mssms] RE: Hardware Inventory
ConfigMgr is not an asset management system. It would
Hi All,
Something i'm missing , Machines are in local office. for 70 MB file to
download using software Distribution, taking 30 mins .. below is the client
agent settings
100 MB is the local speed, Any help ? its brand new sccm infrastructure..
But in the same , If i do Image/OSD bulding is
ConfigMgr is not an asset management system. It would be a huge mistake to try
to use it as a CMDB.
J
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Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 8:29 AM
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Subject: [mssms] RE:
Have you tried CliUpg.acu or did you try client.acu? There’s a difference.
Client.acu is the one most folks know about and is what’s widely found on the
web. CliUpg.acu is one you won’t find documented or noted anywhere.
Client.acu merely redistributes the client packages (including the hidden
Sorry to resurrect this thread, but this is giving me some heartburn too.
During provisioning I pre-place an AD object in the OU where the object will
live so it can be discovered and sorted by collection query by its OU to do
some of the same things as Mats. I also put this object into
We have about 35,000 machines and we're running hardware inventory every 10
hours.
Mike
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Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 8:55 AM
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Subject: [mssms] Hardware
I'm curious how often everyone is running hardware inventory? We have about
50,000 machines in our environment running hardware and software inventory
every 4 days. We are getting rid of our asset management system and upper
management wants ConfigMgr to replace it.
Thanks,
Renae Mead
DTMB IS
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