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Clean SW & HW Inventory - 9/4/2008 3:06:49 AM

ridvan

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Hi,

Is there any tool, or any option, or any VBS, that clears Completely SW & HW Inventory,

I woul like to do this, because i need to be 100% sure, that the report that i generate is UP-TO-DATE,

Regards,
Ridvan

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RE: Clean SW & HW Inventory - 9/4/2008 4:38:44 AM

jquirk822

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If what you are looking to do is to generate a full hardware inventory, rather than a delta, then SMS Client Center can do this for you on a per-machine basis.

If you're looking to script cleaning the inventory cache, the SDK provides this VBScript:

Sub ResetHardwareInventoryCache()

' Get a connection to the "root\ccm\invagt" namespace.
Dim locator
Set locator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
Dim services
Set services = locator.ConnectServer( , "root\ccm\invagt")

' Delete the specified InventoryActionStatus instance.
services.Delete "InventoryActionStatus.InventoryActionID='{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001}'"

' Display message.
wscript.echo "Reset Hardware Inventory cache."

End Sub

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It's pretty much the same to reset the software inventory cache: Sub ResetSoftwareInventoryCache()

' Get a connection to the "root\ccm\invagt" namespace.
Dim locator
Set locator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
Dim services
Set services = locator.ConnectServer( , "root\ccm\invagt")

' Delete the specified InventoryActionStatus instance.
services.Delete "InventoryActionStatus.InventoryActionID='{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000002}'"

' Display message.
wscript.echo "Reset Software Inventory cache."

End Sub

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I'd be interested to know what problems you're seeing that makes you need this though?

JQ

< Message edited by jquirk822 -- 9/4/2008 4:39:38 AM >

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RE: Clean SW & HW Inventory - 9/4/2008 5:19:29 AM

ridvan

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The reason why i would like to do this is:

I am planing to do a huge software installation (more than 50 different apps) in more than 1K PC-s, and i like to have a 100% clean raport, where to deploy apps, where is deployed. i plan to generate the detailed report in morning and than deploy application and than in the end of the day to generate again the report.

Actually i do not need nothing to be kept in history of inventory, it is not needed for my enviroment, all what i need is Clean & Fresh & Quick report.

I Hope you undertstand my need based on explanation above,

Regards,
Ridvan

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