How To Speed Site Property Changes

• Microsoft Systems Management Server versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2

SUMMARY

Depending on the Site Server's service response settings, the services involved in changing a site's properties may sit idle for an extended period of time waiting for their polling interval to expire. If proposed site property changes exist, their implementation can be expedited, rather than waiting up to 30 minutes for them to be imposed.

MORE INFORMATION

Proposed site properties are written to the SQL database for the site, and there they wait for the Hierarchy Manager service to extract them to a .CT1 file for hand-off to the Site Configuration Manager. Because the Hierarchy Manager bases its interaction for reads from the database on a polling interval, the service can be stopped and restarted in order to force it to check the database for changes.

Once it has pulled the changes from the database, it writes them to a *.CT1 file and the Site Configuration Manager immediately wakes up (upon detecting the new *.CT1 file) and implement the changes.

Finally, Site Configuration Manager writes a new *.CT2 file containing confirmation of the proposed changes and this file is handed off to the Hierarchy Manager. Hierarchy Manager then updates the database, making the proposed site properties, actual site properties.

NOTE: Use of the unsupported SENDCODE.EXE utility to wake up the Site Config Manager will do nothing until there is a valid *.CT1 file containing the proposed changes. Stopping and starting the Hierarchy Manager is the proper way to jump-start the process.