Using the SMS Site Repair Wizard

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The SMS Site Repair Wizard is automatically installed on your SMS site server during site setup and on any computer running the SMS Administrator Console. The SMS Site Repair Wizard doesn’t need to be run on the site that’s being recovered, but in many cases it can be more efficient and faster than executing steps across the network. This wizard automates many recovery tasks and is useful in repairing as well as recovering an SMS site server. Here’s an example.

When an SMS site server is a member of a site hierarchy, it receives configuration information about packages, collections, and advertisements (among other things) from its parent, sends that kind of information to its own child sites, and sends its database information such as collected inventory and status messages to its parent. Sites participating in a hierarchy keep track of what needs to be sent back and forth by using a series of version stamps. There are version stamps for various objects in the SMS database, and version information is stored in many places—the registry on the site server, the site control file, and in the database itself. If the version stamps get out of sync for some reason, your site might not receive or accept any new information or send information of its own because it can’t ascertain whether the information is valid any longer. The SMS Site Repair Wizard helps to put your site server back in sync by resetting the version values.

Another way the SMS Site Repair Wizard can help recover a site is through the use of a reference site. This would be a parent site that the wizard can contact to read the last data set that your site sent to the parent in an effort to restore your site’s configuration and reset its version information.

Here is a complete list of the tasks carried out by the SMS Site Repair Wizard:

  • Delete remote CAPs

  • Save the Svracct folder

  • Stop and disable site services on the site server

  • Restore the site database

  • Restore SMS files

  • Restore SMS registry key

  • Restore NAL registry key

  • Restore the Svracct folder

  • Increment the Transaction ID

  • Increment the DDM serial number

  • Synchronize Advanced Client Policy with the site database

  • Increment serial numbers in the site database

  • Reset status messages

  • Insert the most current site control file

  • Start and enable the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service on the site database server

  • Reconfigure child sites

  • Reconfigure senders

  • Reconfigure site systems

  • Re-create other configuration changes

  • Return the site server to service

  • Restart the site server and check SMS services

  • Reset the ACL objects on the SMS folders and the registry

  • Reset the site again

  • Resynchronize the parent and child site servers

  • Create addresses for other sites

  • Change the site’s parent assignment

  • Synchronize with other sites

  • Delete phantom child sites

  • Regenerate orphaned collections, advertisements, and packages

Together with the Recovery Expert, this tool all but guarantees successful recovery and repair of your SMS site. What can go wrong, then? Well, the recovery is only going to be as good as the work you’ve put into thoroughly documenting your site—its configuration, packages, collections, and so on—and the frequency with which you’ve backed up your site. Chapter 13 in the Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Concepts, Planning, and Deployment Guide, available on the SMS product CD, will give you a good detailed approach toward planning for a successful recovery experience.

To run the SMS Site Repair Wizard, follow these steps:

  1. From the Systems Management Server program group, click SMS Site Repair Wizard to display the Welcome page shown in Figure 18.20. Enter the name of the site server you need to repair.

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    Figure 18.20: The SMS Site Repair Wizard Welcome page.

  2. Click Next to display the Access Rights And Permissions Required page shown in Figure 18.21. This lists the permissions you need when running this wizard.

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    Figure 18.21: The SMS Site Repair Wizard Access Rights And Permissions Required page.

  3. Click Next to display the Site Restore Steps page shown in Figure 18.22. On this page you can direct the wizard to the location of your most current site backup folder. If you don’t have a current backup, you must perform the manual steps listed on this page before continuing. If you select the option The Site Has Been Manually Restored Or Has No Backup and click Next, you’ll go right to the progress bar shown in Figure 18.24 and described in step 4. However, the recommended best practice is that you do have a current backup, so go on to the next step.

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    Figure 18.22: The SMS Site Repair Wizard Site Restore Steps page.

  4. Click Next to display the Restore Database page shown in Figure 18.23.

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    Figure 18.23: The SMS Site Repair Wizard Restore Database page.

  5. Select whether you want the wizard to restore the SMS site database for you or whether you’ve already done so and then click Next. At this point the wizard will begin to carry out some initial steps, such as verifying permissions and stopping services, and a progress bar similar to that shown in Figure 18.24 is displayed.

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    Figure 18.24: The SMS Site Repair Wizard Site progress bar.

  6. The Site Backup And Failure Dates page, shown in Figure 18.25, is displayed next. Enter the date of the last backup and the date of the failure.

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    Figure 18.25: The SMS Site Repair Wizard Site Backup And Failure Dates page.

  7. Click Next to display the Parent Site Setting shown in Figure 18.26.

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    Figure 18.26: The SMS Site Repair Wizard Parent Site Settings page.

  8. If you choose Central Site and click Next, you’ll see the Verify Site Hierarchy page shown in Figure 18.27. Here you must specify any changes to the hierarchy that might have occurred since the last backup—for example, a new child site that was added.

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    Figure 18.27: The SMS Site Repair Wizard Verify Site Hierarchy page.

    If you choose Child Site That Reports to Parent Site and click Next, you’ll see the Parent Site Connection page shown in Figure 18.28. Here you must specify any changes to site addresses that might have occurred since the last backup. Note that you can specify the name of the parent site for your site to use as a reference server and obtain configuration information for your site. Clicking Next here takes you back to the Verify Site Hierarchy page.

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    Figure 18.28: The SMS Site Repair Wizard Parent Site Connection page.

  9. Click Next on the Verify Site Hierarchy page to display the Package Recovery page shown in Figure 18.29. Here you can choose to recover package source files that might have been stored on the site server, as well as refresh distribution points.

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    Figure 18.29: The SMS Site Repair Wizard Package Recovery page.

  10. Click Next to display the SMS Site Repair Wizard Site Completing page shown in Figure 18.30. When you click Finish, the wizard displays a progress bar enumerating the tasks it’s carrying out. When the wizard is finished, it displays a completion page that indicates success or failure and any additional steps that you need to carry out.

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    Figure 18.30: The SMS Site Repair Wizard Site Completing page.



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Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Administrator's Companion
Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Administrators Companion (Pro-Administrators Companion)
ISBN: 0735618887
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 178

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