Full Hardware Inventory SCCM Client (How-to)

Introduction

The other day, I needed to force a full hardware inventory in one of my SCCM Clients.

My goal was to add a new hardware class to the SCCM client settings hardware classes so that I could collect some custom information from my SCCM clients. The problem was that, when I ran a hardware inventory on one of my client machines, the new hardware class was not being pulled to SCCM and not showing under the SCCM client Resource Explorer.

It turns out that the SCCM client was reporting that a previous version was available and, to the SCCM Management Point, just the differences were arriving. And yes, I did pull new policies to the client, so I needed to find a way to run a full inventory on the clients.

 

Run a Full Hardware Inventory on the SCCM Client

To accomplish this task you need to, on the SCCM client machine, open wbemtest. Click on the start menu and start typing “wbemtest”. When wbemtest shows up on the start menu, right-click it and choose “Run as administrator“. If you get and UAC prompt click on “Yes“.

Click on “Connect“(1) and, in the Namespace textbox, type “root\ccm\invagt“. Click “Connect” (2).

 

Press on “Enum Classes...”

 

Select “Recursive” and click “OK”

 

Find “InventoryActionStatus” and double-click it

 

Click on “Instances”

 

Select the hardware inventory line, which is the one that ends in “…01”, the one I have highlighted on the image below. Click “Delete” and click “Close” until you close wbemtest.

 

Run the new full hardware inventory

Open the “Configuration Manager” Client and, on the “Actions“ tab, select the “Hardware Inventory Cycle” and click on “Run Now“.

 

Reviewing the “InventoryAgent.log” log file

Open the InventoryAgent.log file, which usually is under C:\Windows\CCM\Logs, and check if the SCCM client is running a full hardware inventory report.

 

And that’s it! The machine ran a full inventory and all the needed details from the new hardware class were pulled to the SCCM server.

 

Reference: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/canitpro/2013/09/03/step-by-step-forcing-a-full-hardware-inventory-for-sccm/

 

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