SMS: SMS Admin Shows Incomplete List of Paths for Software Inventory Package

• Microsoft Systems Management Server version 1.2

SYMPTOMS

When the client Inventory Agent (for example, Invwin32 and/or Invdos) performs a software inventory, it will scan the local drives for files that match the criteria defined in the Inventory Package properties.

If you create an Inventory Package to search for multiple files that exist in the same directory on the client, Systems Management Server will only report the first file that is found. This occurs regardless of the search logic. It makes no difference whether you use the AND operator or the OR operator.

Software inventory does continue to search the directory for other files that have been defined, but it does not actually report the information about the other files found in SMS Admin. If multiple files are present, only the first file defined in the Software Inventory package will be displayed in the client's Packages icon in Personal Computer Properties.

WORKAROUND

Create a separate Software Inventory package for each file that you need to locate.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server version 1.2.

Additional query words: prodsms

Keywords : smsadmin smsinv
Version : winnt:1.2
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbprb