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Question about "Custom" schedule for h/w & s/... - 5/19/2008 2:41:20 PM

jbennett193

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If I had a custom schedule configured for say every Saturday at 3:00am, what would happen if the machine was not powered up or connected to our network at that time? Would it skip it altogether and try again at the next scheduled cycle, or would it perform the inventory when the machine next connects to the network?

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Jerry

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RE: Question about "Custom" schedule for h/w ... - 5/19/2008 4:18:21 PM

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I have never tested this specific scenario. I know that "overdue" advertisements will run as soon as possible after the specified date. It seems logical that the inventories would do the same. If memory serves, it "caught up" in SMS 2003.

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RE: Question about "Custom" schedule for h/w ... - 5/19/2008 4:29:02 PM

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I'm pretty sure that's right. As soon as a little time has passed, it should see it's past due for inventory and send stuff along.

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RE: Question about "Custom" schedule for h/w ... - 5/19/2008 5:51:19 PM

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Any reason why you would want to set the schedule to run at that time? You do realize, that all your systems in that site will send their inventory up at the same time. That may put a bit of a backlog on the server, depending how many clients you have.

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RE: Question about "Custom" schedule for h/w ... - 5/19/2008 10:09:13 PM

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Thanks for the replies. The reason I'm mulling over the "Custom" schedule vs the simple schedule is that we have one Primary site & 4 secondary sites. With this scenario, i'm stuck with all managed clients using the same properties. Our server guys would prefer to be inventoried after hours. By using the custom schedule, not all clients would do the inventories at our example time of 3:00am. I'm under the impression that there is a built in 2 hour random window for custom schedules to keep everyone from hitting the box at the same time.

Another option that i'm wondering about is if I used the "Simple" schedule of 1/wk. Then pushed the client to servers during non production hours, would they keep this after hours schedule?

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RE: Question about "Custom" schedule for h/w ... - 5/19/2008 10:43:23 PM

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The simple schedule gives you the flexibility of the clients reporting inventory when they report inventory, meaning if they send up an inventory at 8pm, the will send one again at 8pm. When the systems are off or miss the time, they just send it when they can and start on that schedule. So not all your clients will report at the same time and the overall schedule of when all your client report inventory will always be constantly changing. The "custom" schedule is a static schedule and all your systems will report at the exact some time, provided they are on at the time.

Without knowing the number of clients and what is being inventoried in your environment, I would have to ask, why are the server guys worried about inventory. Inventory is fairly small and it not done at an hourly rate, they shouldn't have nothing to worry about. I have 16k clients reporting inventory dailys, plus the IMTU scan inventory that runs daily as well and I have had no complaints. Just a thought.

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RE: Question about "Custom" schedule for h/w ... - 5/19/2008 11:16:37 PM

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Another option that i'm wondering about is if I used the "Simple" schedule of 1/wk. Then pushed the client to servers during non production hours, would they keep this after hours schedule?

With the simple schedule, if you have it set to 1 week and they're all set at 10:00pm, then they'll eventually drift from 10:00pm. If the machine is off and then is turned back on, or if inventory is manually kicked off at say, 12:00 noon, then the next time it'd run is 1 week later at noon. So no, that won't guarantee their schedule at all.

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