SMS: Jobs Will Not Go Active, Invalid JobIDs generated.

• Microsoft Systems Management Server version 1.2

SYMPTOMS

If a large number of jobs have been processed at a Systems Manager Server site, new jobs may fail to go active. The following symptoms may be occur:

• Software distribution and normal site maintenance tasks cease.



• All pending jobs in the Systems Management Server Administrator Jobs window remain with a status of Pending. They never go Active.



• The following error may appear in the Systems Management Server Scheduler log file (<drive>:\Sms\Logs\Sched.log, where <drive> is the logical disk that Systems Management Server is installed on):




Could not transfer job from secondary to primary source

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Systems Management Server version 1.2. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: prodsms

Keywords : kbbug1.20 smsdatabase smsscheduler
Version : winnt:1.2
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug