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Sneak Peek – Client Status Reporting in Configuration Manager 2007 R2
Rob Stack: Recently, I’ve been working on the documentation set for a great new feature in the upcoming Configuration Manager 2007 R2, client status reporting.What’s client status reporting, you might ask? Those of you who’ve been around since SMS 2003 days might remember the SMS 2003 client health monitoring tool which gave you the ability to identify a number of site system and client problems on your site. This was a great tool, but had some disadvantages such as:
· The tool stored its data in a separate database adding administrative overhead for the site administrator.
· Client health reports could not be displayed in the SMS console; the tool used Microsoft Excel and Internet Explorer to display reports.
Client status reporting is an evolution of this tool designed to integrate with Configuration Manager 2007 R2 and provides a number of improvements over existing methods of diagnosing client status:
· Identifies clients that are online, but are not requesting policy
· Generates trending reports, showing client status over a period of time
· Provides standard Configuration Manager reports to examine the status of clients
· Identifies clients that are online, but are experiencing problems with one or more client components
· Identifies clients that are online, but do not have up to date discovery or inventory information
· Identifies offline clients
· Identifies obsolete clients
Another advantage of this tool is that it’s not dependant on Configuration Manager site systems. If an inbox on the site server is backlogged, this will not affect client status reporting.(continue at source)