CM 2012 SP1 CU3
I had our CM client settings for hardware inventory configured to do daily
scans. After seeing a large number of BadMIF files, and not being able to
get rid of them by resetting the inventory to force a full scan, I opened a
ticket with Microsoft.
They asked me to reset the inventory on the computers causing bad scans (I
didn't tell them I had already done this, I wanted to see what they did), so
I wrote an updated script and ran the commands again. I got these same
commands from an email on this list.
WMIC /namespace:\\root\ccm\invagt path inventoryActionStatus where
InventoryActionID="{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001}" DELETE
/NOINTERACTIVE
WMIC /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule
"{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001}" /NOINTERACTIVE
After I reported to Microsoft that the WMIC commands weren't fixing the
issue, they did some more troubleshooting, and then made the following 2
changes.
Changed the hardware inventory from daily scans to every 4 days, and deleted
all the BadMIF files.
I would like to ask the group here the following questions to compare
numbers against our environment. I personally would like to do daily scans
for updated data, but I don't want to have the BadMIF files issue either.
1. What is your hardware inventory scan schedule set to? Changed from
daily to every 4 days.
2. How many clients are in your environment? 4,000
3. Are you still experiencing a large number of BadMIFs? No
