Collection Views in Configuration Manager
Updated: January 1, 2014
Applies To: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1, System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager
Collection views contain information about the collections, collection rules, and collection members. Many of the collection views are useful when creating reports on site data, software update deployments, application deployments, and compliance settings.
The two types of collection views are as follows:
The first type lists all members of a specific collection and starts with the v_CM_RES_COLL_ view name and ends with the collection ID, with the exception of the v_FullCollectionMembership view, which lists all members of all collections. This collection type will be used most often when creating reports.
The second type of collection view has a name that starts with v_ and contains general information about the collections but not the member resources within each collection.
Collection Views
The collection views are described in the following table.
Collection View |
Description |
|---|---|
v_ClientCollectionMembers |
Lists all devices, by resource ID, that are not in an obsolete or decommissioned state, what collections the device is a member of, and whether the resource is a Configuration Manager client. The view can be joined to other views by using the CollectionID and ResourceID columns. |
v_CM_RES_COLL_<CollectionID> |
Lists all devices that are members of the collection. The device ID, name, client GUID, site code, whether the computer is assigned to a site, whether the computer has been approved, whether the computer is an active client, and so on. The view can be joined to other views by using the CollectionID and ResourceID columns. |
v_Collection |
Lists all collections by collection ID, collection name, and what view the collection maps to (listed in the v_CM_RES_COLL_<CollectionID> row), the last time the collection membership changed, as well as other collection information. The view can be joined to other views by using the CollectionID column. |
v_CollectionRuleDirect |
Lists the collections that contain direct membership rules. The view can be joined to other views by using the CollectionID or ResourceID columns. |
v_CollectionRuleQuery |
Lists the query statement for each query-based collection. The view can be joined to other views by using the CollectionID and LimitToCollectionID columns. |
v_CollectionSettings |
Lists the configured settings for each collection, such as restart countdown, polling interval, collection variable precedence, source site, last modification time, and more. The view can be joined to other views by using the CollectionID column. |
v_CollectionVariable |
Lists the collections that have associated task sequence variables. The view can be joined to other views by using the CollectionID column. |
v_FullCollectionMembership |
Lists the resources for all collections. Contains the collection ID, resource ID, name, domain, resource GUID, site code, and other client information. The view can be joined to other views by using the CollectionID and ResourceID columns. |
v_FullCollectionMembership_Valid |
Lists the resources that are not in an obsolete or decommissioned state for all collections and contains a subset of information from the v_FullCollectionMembership view. The view can be joined to other views by using the CollectionID and ResourceID columns. |
v_ServiceWindow |
Lists all collections that have a configured maintenance window and information about the maintenance window, such as the maintenance window name, description, start time, and duration. The view can be joined to other views by using the CollectionID column. |
v_Collections |
Lists all collections by collection ID and collection name. Also contains further information about each collection, for example:
The view can be joined to other views by using the CollectionID column. |