Using CliVerify.exe to Configure the 30 Day Client Verify Cycle
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by Dana Daugherty
This article explains the 30 day Client Verification cycle as it
applies to SP1 and SP2 sites. The article also includes a link for a
utility to allow you adjust or turn off this cycle. As far as
your network and clients are concerned, if your site is at SP1 your
clients are reinstalling themselves every 30 days. All clients verify their client
installation files every 30 days based on a date in 1980. Our last
verification cycle date to occurred on 9/18/00 next one will be
10/18 then 11/17 then 30 after that and so on. For SP1, during the
verification process all client installation files (depends
on the client agents your site has enabled at a site) are copied to
each PC from it's local SMS server. Next, the client verifies that
all it's client files are present and the correct version etc. Also
during this process a complete software inventory (not a delta
inventory) is sent to its local site server then forwarded to a
primary server (regardless of the Software Inventory Schedule
configuration on the site server). The load of the above problem
could seriously degrade the performance of your network.. The architecture of the client
verification has changed significantly in SP2. The client still
checks to see if all components are working but only copies files
that are need for repair. The Q articles associated they are as
follows: Q239564 and Q246040. I was aware of Q239564 and this
possible limitation because it is on the SP2 fix list. In this
article Ms states this may be an issue. There is no
indication in either article that all clients will reinstall
themselves at the same time based on a single date in 1980 or that
they would keep the same GUID or that software inventory resync
requests are common occur during this cycle. Also, I expected the 30
day period to start on the clients' installation date and for it to
actually get a new unique ID. Cliverify Overview: This utility will not work for SP2 sites. You can use Cliverify.exe to change the interval of
the client verify cycle. To 2. Select the site you want to configure Clients will pick up this configuration change the
next time CCIM runs (on reboot or 23 hour maintenance
cycle).
modify the client verify
cycle:
1. Start Cliverify.exe, type the name of a Systems
Management Server primary site
server, and then click
OK.
3. Click to clear the Periodically Verify Client
Installation check box to
disable this feature, or set the Verify
Interval value to an appropriate
setting.
4. Click
OK.
NOTE: You must perform these steps for each Systems
Management Server site server
on which you want the client verify
cycle adjusted.
