Your SMS site database contains a very rich collection of information about your networks, computers, users, user groups, and many other components of your computing environment. Often, the information about an object is very detailed. The SMS site database also contains objects representing familiar SMS entities such as advertisements, packages, sites, programs, and systems.
Collectively, the classes contain over 1,000 properties, which you can view in the SMS site database by using the Query Builder, Resource Explorer, and Crystal Reports. The primary purpose of this appendix and the following one is to present a summary of the objects and properties to help you plan your inventory, queries and reports.
You might find that many of these objects and properties are not initially present in your SMS site database. Some are created as the result of a particular discovery method. Others are generated by a hardware or software inventory. Some of the hardware classes and properties are not collected by default but must be specifically enabled. In other words, many of these items will appear in your database as you more fully use the features of SMS. Also, the hardware inventory objects are described in Appendix C, “Hardware Inventory Classes.”