How to Configure and Monitor Configuration Manager Client Status for Effective Device Management. Before you can monitor Configuration Manager client status and remediate problems that are found, you must configure your site to specify the parameters that are used to mark clients as inactive and configure options to alert you if client activity falls below a specified threshold.
Configure client status
1. Почніть the SCCM console. Перейдіть до Monitoring\Client Status. Натисніть Client Status Settings in the upper menu;
2. In the Client Status Settings Properties, you can configure next parameters:
- Client Policy requests during the following days – This setting specifies the number of days since a client requested a policy. The value is set to 7 days by default.
- Heartbeat discovery during the following days – This setting specifies the number of days since the client sent a heartbeat record to the site database. The value is set to 7 days by default.
- Hardware inventory during the following days – This setting specifies the number of days since the client sent a hardware inventory record to the site database. The value is set to 7 days by default.
- Software inventory during the following days – This setting specifies the number of days since the client sent a software inventory record to the site database. The value is set to 7 days by default.
- Status messages during the following days – This setting specifies the number of days since the client sent status messages to the site database. The value is set to 7 days by default.
- Retain client status history for the following number of days – This setting specifies for how long the client status history should remain in the site database. It is set to 31 days by default.
3. Натисніть добре;
4. Натисніть Schedule Client Status Update in the upper menu. За умовчанням, the client status update is set to 1 Day. You can set it to 1 Hour. This means that every 1 hour the client status is updated.
5. Натисніть добре;
Configure alerts for client status
1. Перейдіть до Assets and Compliance\Device Collections. Select the collection for which you want to enable the alerts. Натисніть Properties in the upper menu;
2. Click on the Alerts tab and click додати;
Примітка: Alerts are supported only for Device Collections
3. Under the Client status select all options. Налаштувати Endpoint protection when Endpoint clients are deployed to a device collection. Натисніть добре;
4. We see there are 3 conditions for which alerts can be raised. An Alert severity can be Critical, Warning, або Information. Leave by default and click Apply, then добре;
Run Client Status Report
1. Перейдіть до Monitoring\Reporting\Reports\Client Status, run the report for client status, Client status summary;
2. Виберіть Collection, Client Version і натисніть View Report;
3. In my case, it’s empty (because it’s LAB deployment);
4. This is from my non-test deployment:
