Hardware Inventory Agent Service 1

[mittonc]

I have an issue with the SMS Hardware Inventory Agent Service stopping. If it is re-started it will run for approx 15 seconds and then stops again.

Seems to do it on Win2k professional and NT4 server SP6a.

SMS is version 2.0 sp2.

Anybody any ideas?

Cheeers

 

[snyderj]

That's the way it works. Here's a simple explanation. There are two services running for hardware inventory: WMI and the SMS HW Inv agent. WMI (Microsoft's implementation of WBEM) is configured by default to collect hardware inventory every 30 minutes and write it to a repository (CIM.rep). SMS hardware inventory is a scheduled agent to collect information from this repository, and any .mif files, and send the information off to the CAP. Since it is scheduled, you only see it run for a brief time. It's the SMS client service that should be running all the time.