Thanks, I wonder if putting in the script an action to change the timeout in 
the client’s WMI would work, policy would likely set it back but if it worked 
for the time that script runs…?

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Sherry Kissinger
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 2:09 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [mssms] Troubleshooting Configuration Baseline failures


Oh, a timeout.  That means that whatever it is you might be trying to do in 
that script... is running longer than the default timeout value.  It's not a 
visible setting... and the link below is of course, technically unsupported... 
but if you WANTED to change that to something higher...  Personally I wouldn't 
go crazy up to 10 minutes like this person did in their example.  the default 
is 60 seconds.  Maybe change it to 90, wait and see if that's "good enough", 
then 120; until the diminishing returns means you should stop tweaking it.

10 minutes, IMO, means some other thing in queue on a box might wait for 10 
minutes for a timeout before moving to the next thing.  You might introduce way 
more issues than you anticipate by just "let's just increase the timeout to 10 
minutes".  Esp. if you set this... and then a year from now wonder "why are 
there significant delays when..." on clients.  Be careful with messing with 
defaults, esp. sorta kinda hidden ones like this.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/fei_xias_blog/archive/2013/10/21/system-center-2012-configmgr-using-vbs-to-extend-the-dcm-script-execution-timeout-value.aspx<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__blogs.msdn.com_b_fei-5Fxias-5Fblog_archive_2013_10_21_system-2Dcenter-2D2012-2Dconfigmgr-2Dusing-2Dvbs-2Dto-2Dextend-2Dthe-2Ddcm-2Dscript-2Dexecution-2Dtimeout-2Dvalue.aspx&d=AwMFaQ&c=aLnS6P8Ng0zSNhCF04OWImQ_He2L69sNWG3PbxeyieE&r=pQGVi_ygWZb0EWR_EeMFzgKJCQ8AFTQI7Ck6iiIPItI&m=ImPNEzlX8rgIZOVGM9CaBNYBLzLkXcvPR0tSkY-X5ZU&s=mbbM-86AEzsTqCQjnxWvHLNVHC_cXjCjR_y3R_l2TuI&e=>


On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:04 PM, "Krueger, Jeff" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

It’s sitting at about a 8-10% failure rate,  I’ve tweaked the script to set the 
error action preference to silently continue, and I think that has helped.  But 
digging into the client logs on some of the ones that have failed is not 
showing me very much, I may be looking in the wrong place.  The info that comes 
back from the deployment under the monitoring node is a little more helpful, 
but the numbers are not adding up.  Right now I’m seeing about 232 failures in 
the Assets and Compliance node, but the deployment shows 170 total errors…
[cid:[email protected]]

Where on the client would I be able to see the script execution timeout?  And 
is there a setting that limits how long a discovery script can run for?

Thanks!

From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sherry Kissinger
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:46 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [mssms] Troubleshooting Configuration Baseline failures

More details are needed (by me anyway).  Is this baseline deployed to 
hundreds/thousands, and < 1% failure?  or 99% failure?

if <1% failure, then I would suspect something on the client--maybe .net is 
messed up, and it can't figure out how to interpret something.  Or policy is 
out of whack, and needs a policy reset.  Or something I've yet to encounter.  
There was even one time I spent forever trying to figure out what it was...only 
to find out the machine was having all kinds of issues; and was slated to be 
reimaged.

If 99% failure, then I'd assume something was inherently wrong with the 
baseline itself



On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 11:31 AM, "Krueger, Jeff" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Haven’t been able to find much on troubleshooting Configuration Baseline 
failures.  I have a baseline setup with a discovery script that runs well on 
most machines but it is reporting about 200-300 machines (it fluctuates) as 
failed.  Looking at some of them and pulling up the logs I see the following

In DCMReporting.log :
Conformant Rule: 
******_Baseline_f11b8413_5f8f_4871_bf75_e487c928d848_1_Configuration_PolicyDocument
 not found

No ConfigPoints found for rule:System Center Configuration 
Manager.ScopeId_****_Baseline_f11b8413_5f8f_4871_bf75_e487c928d848_Configuration_PolicyDocument.1.5****__ScopeId_****_Baseline_f11b8413_5f8f_4871_bf75_e487c928d848_1_Configuration_PolicyDocument


Jeff Krueger
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Solutions Design Team
IT - Henry Ford Health System
248.853.4466


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