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Mastering System Center Configuration Manager

By : Vangel Krstevski
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Mastering System Center Configuration Manager

By: Vangel Krstevski

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mastering System Center Configuration Manager
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Troubleshooting compliance settings


Troubleshooting compliance settings is largely a logfile review exercise. Because the evaluation of compliance settings is a client activity, the logs for compliance settings processing are on the client site in the client logs folder, which is located in the %SystemRoot%\CCM\Logs folder. There are five log files used for compliance settings to store activity. They are:

  • Ciagent.log: This file provides information about downloading, storing, and accessing assigned configuration baselines

  • CITaskManager.log: This file records information about the configuration item's task scheduling

  • Dcmagent.log: This file provides high-level information about the evaluation of the assigned configuration baselines plus information regarding compliance settings processes

  • DCMReporting.log: This file records information about the reporting policy platform results in state messages for the configuration items

  • DcmWmiProvider.log: This file records information about reading a...