SMS: View Troubleshooting Information in Administrator Console

• Microsoft Systems Management Server version 2.0

SUMMARY

All of the data displayed in the SMS Administrator console is provided by the Systems Managment Server Site Provider through Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). The SMS Administrator console can be started in Node Information mode, which displays the source of and all the values behind every property page available in the user interface.

To operate the Administrator Console in Node Information mode, start the console with the following command line:

mmc.exe /sms:NodeInfo=1 D:\sms\bin\i386\sms.msc

where D is your Systems Management Server installation directory.

MORE INFORMATION

The Node Information property page displays the underlying WMI (Web-Based Enterprise Managment) class with all its properties and instance information, which is useful for debugging for two reasons:

• When coding applications using the Systems Managment Server Toolkit, it is often helpful to use the SMS Administrator console as an example of how information can be exposed and manipulated through the Site Provider.



• One of the properties exposed in the Node Information will be the ID of the property's instance. When troubleshooting problems related to collections, packages, advertisements, job requests, and so forth, the ID of the instance is noted in the log file and sometimes the status message. Since IDs are not identified by default in the SMS Administrator console, the Node Information property page is the only way to easily identify the the object ID. For example, for collections, the it will be called CollectionId.

Additional query words: prodsms wbem wmi tshoot smstshoot swdist ui node info nodeinfo

Keywords : kbSMS200
Version : winnt:2.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbinfo