Discovery Tools are not discovering machines 1

[puma]

I am fairly new to the SMS product set, and could use some help. I have configured all discoveries the way Microsoft Consulting Services has recommended within our lab environment. The SMS Server has been "up and running" for about 3 week. The lab has 18 NT Servers all hooked up to the network. After 3 weeks, only 5 machines have been discovered. All 5 of those machines where discovered only after being rebooted. We are looking at deploying SMS on a very large scale, and rebooting all machines is out of the question. Can anyone suggest a way of modifying the discovery process, or think of what could be wrong.

 

[lbrochmann]

Can you get me detqils on your descovering settings ?
What agents and methods are activated ?

Laurent

 

[puma]

As far as the discovery settings, all discoveries are enabled. Network discovery is set for a single subnet, single domain, community names are correct (all machines in lab have SNMP (even those not discovered)), DHCP is not enabled (we don't have DHCP in the lab), type of discovery is Topology, Client, and Client operating system. Every other discovery is pretty much standard. As far as agents, the only agents NOT enabled are Software Metering and Event to Trap. Just in case it will help, we are on SMS 2.0 SP2 (2.0.1493.2000).

 

[Jpoandl]

Puma,

I am in the middle of rolling out SMS. I had a similar problem. In my environnment, I am using DHCP server. Other than that, we seem to have fairly similar environments. In the begging of the roll-out I failed to understand my boundaries properly. This environment is class A (10.x.x.x) with a 255.255.255 subnet mask. I originaly set my boundary to 10.0.0.0 This was a mistake...and no client were discovered. As soon as I changed my boundary to 10.36.40.0, 10.36.50.0, 10.36.70.0, I started to see discovered clients arrive in SMS. (the subnet mask is always determined from the client settings.)

Make sure you set up your discovery schedule so that network discovery is happening when your client machines are turned on. I made the mistake of scheduling network discovery at night. well, our users turn their machines off every night before they go home. As a result, I did not discover any machines. I think network discovery is really only needed if you want IP addressable devices (non-pc) to show up in SMS. for example, IP printers, routers, and switches. It is not really needed to roll-out SMS. If you are having trouble rolling out SMS you should take a close look at your log files (C:\winnt\MS\logs) on the client.