Enabling and Disabling MIF Collection

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You can use IDMIF and NOIDMIF files to collect supplemental information about SMS client computers or other resources during hardware inventory, as described in Chapter 3, "Advanced Inventory Collection."

Collecting IDMIFs or NOIDMIFs can be a security risk, so you can disable their collection if that risk is significant to you. For more information about IDMIF and NOIDMIF security issues, see the "Inventory Collection" section in Chapter 5, "Understanding SMS Security," in the Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Concepts, Planning, and Deployment Guide.

Newly installed SMS 2003 sites have MIF collection disabled by default. SMS 2003 sites that have been upgraded from SMS 2.0 have MIF collection enabled by default. Disabling hardware inventory MIF collection does not disable software distribution status MIF collection. For more information about software distribution status MIFs, see Chapter 5, "Distributing Software."

To enable or disable MIF collection

  1. Click the MIF Collection tab in the Hardware Inventory Client Agent Properties dialog box.

  2. Select or clear the options to collect IDMIF or NOIDMIF files for the Legacy Client and Advanced Client.

Caution

  • When NOIDMIF collection is disabled, the data collected using NOIDMIFs is deleted from the SMS site that the clients are assigned to.
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