Active Directory Discovery: Missing computers

November 16, 2018 at 8:00 AM

Dear Snow Experts, I'm looking for some basic AD information in Snow. I see there is a table called: [SnowInventory].[inv].DiscoveryActiveDirectory But it does not contain everything we have in our AD. Some Computer accounts that have been recently changed are still not in this table (the WhenChanged property is more recent than the AD period configured in the SMACC), as a result, some 400 computers are missing The AD Discovery seems to be running properly, the table receives updates and th elog is clean. Am I looking at the wrong table?

Detlev Eufinger (Flexera Software)
8 years ago
Hi Samuel The AD dis for computer is intended to determine if you have inventoried all computer objects in the AD. Only a few attributes are read out for this. All computer objects that have been authenticated in the last 60 days are read out. This value can be configured in the SMACC. In the SLM Web, you can see the result through the not inventoried computers report.
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- SamuelBaughan
  8 years ago
  Hi ‌, Thank you for this. I see that the table contains a lot of computers but not all of them. Some active computers from our AD are not listed in [SnowInventory].[inv].DiscoveryActiveDirectory. So I was wondering if I was missing something. Because we have a steady turnover of computers, it quickly adds up to several 100's that I need to clean because that eats up our Snow licenses and prevents the Snow Inventory from processing new computers. That is the reason why I would like to compare our list of computers in SLM ( tblComputers ) with the list from AD and delete the ones that have no AD account anymore. Thank you
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