Systems Management Server and clarion services

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Friedrich,

Something for your wish list...

Clarion-based (and other) 3rd party Windows services do not appear to
respond to SMS asking "who are you and how are you doing?" when SMS
enumerates services.

There is a way to omit them from this, but it requires editing the
sms_def.mof file. Not exactly end user friendly:)

Is there any way you could add this as an option when installing a service,
eg: "exclude this service from SMS management (via removal from the SMS
controlled groups)" OR by messing with the .mof itself (not my preference)?

More info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;257509

I will also ping Bruce about seeing if SelfService can be made to respond
to these interrogations.

The result of this situation can be hundreds of thousands of log entries in
the system event log. Not something that makes sysadmins happy, especially
if they have event log management systems that page them when a system
event occurs:)

Thanks!
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Mark Riffey
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Guy Kawasaki & the Wall Street
Journal staff read it, maybe you should too.

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> I will also ping Bruce about seeing if SelfService can be made to respond
> to these interrogations.

After more research it appears that SelfService is responding to these
interrogations.

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Mark Riffey
http://www.rescuemarketing.com/blog/
Guy Kawasaki & the Wall Street
Journal staff read it, maybe you should too.

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>> I will also ping Bruce about seeing if SelfService can be made to respond
>> to these interrogations.
>
> After more research it appears that SelfService is responding to these
> interrogations.

Thanks for the update, Mark!

Friedrich

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> Thanks for the update, Mark!

It'd still be nice if there was a way to exclude a service from SMS at
install time.
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Mark Riffey
http://www.rescuemarketing.com/blog/
Guy Kawasaki & the Wall Street
Journal staff read it, maybe you should too.

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Mark,

> It'd still be nice if there was a way to exclude a service from SMS at
> install time.

I was unable to find information about excluding a specific service from
SMS. Do you have a link available?

As I understand it, the link you provided disables the enumeration of the
Win32_Service class. It does not "exclude" a service from SMS.

Friedrich

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> I was unable to find information about excluding a specific service from
> SMS. Do you have a link available?
>
> As I understand it, the link you provided disables the enumeration of the
> Win32_Service class. It does not "exclude" a service from SMS.

I dont yet.

I read something that said there is a way remove the item from the SMS
group, but I havent found instructions yet that dont involve the
enumeration thing on that other link.
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Mark Riffey
http://www.rescuemarketing.com/blog/
Guy Kawasaki & the Wall Street
Journal staff read it, maybe you should too.