SMS: Disabling Inventory Collection over Slow Connections

After you install Systems Management Server in your network, you may find that you don't want your remote clients to be inventoried when they log on remotely over a slow speed dial-up connection because of the additional time it will take.

Listed below is a checklist and discussion of the utilities involved in customizing the Systems Management Server environment so that Smsls.bat/.cmd will not be executed over a slow network link such as a dial-up line.

Configuring the Site Server Properties

To configure your SMS site server not to collect inventory over a slow link, do the following:

1. In the Site Properties window in the SMS Administrator utility, click the Inventory button.
2. Select Proposed Properties, and select either "Prompt Workstation Users" or "Don't Take Inventory."
3. Keep choosing OK until you are back to the Sites window. Remember, site property changes take a few minutes to be processed, and longer in cases where a child site's properties are being changed.
   
   As a result of this change in the site properties, the SMS Maintenance Manager service will generate a new Netspeed.com. If SMS is configured so that your login scripts are automatically configured, the new Netspeed.com will eventually be copied or replicated to your logon servers.
   
   However, if SMS is not configured to modify your login scripts, you will need to copy the updated Netspeed.com to your logon server(s). The new version of Netspeed.com is located on your site server in the \Sms\Site.Srv\Maincfg.Box\Client.src directory.
   
   If you use the Directory Replicator service to copy your login scripts between your logon servers, copy the new Netspeed.com to the source directory of your export server, normally the primary domain controller of the logon domain. If this service is not used, copy the file to the Netlogon share of all your logon servers, the same directory where Smsls.bat/.cmd is being executed from.For additional information, click the article number on configuring SMS to automatically update your login scripts below to view the article on configuring SMS to automatically update your login scripts in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
   123318  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/123318/EN-US/ ) Checklist for Enabling SMS in Logon Scripts

Adjusting the Threshold Speed

Depending on the actual speed of the remote connection, you may find it necessary to adjust the cutoff value where Netspeed.com determines that the connection is slow.

For additional information, click the article number on adjusting this threshold value or how Netspeed.com functions below to view the article on adjusting this threshold value or how Netspeed.com functions in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: