As requested by one of my blog reader, would like to post the information on heartbeat discovery. Heartbeat discovery discovers all the machines within the network and ping them. It also tells whether machines is alive or not and client status as well. If client is installed on machine and it does not update the status on SCCM console it means DDR is not sent to the assigned SCCM site and that's why it will display the status as sccm client 'No'. Whenever heartbeat discovery agent runs on the machine, it provides us the below information-
- Is the client installed?
- Client type (Legacy, Advanced, or Device)
- Client version
- NetBIOS Name
- Character encoding used by the client
- Default system locale identifier (typically representative of the client’s language)
- Date and time of the DDR
- Date and time of last DDR
- Short name of system
- Currently logged in (interactive) user
- FQDN of system
- IP Network ID
- Platform ID (this is an encoding of the OS version)
- AD Site Name
- IP Address(es)
- MAC Address(es)
- Domain name
- Assigned (Primary) Site
- Hardware ID
- Identifying number (of the computer system)
- Product name (of the computer system)
- UUID (of the computer system)
- Version (of the computer system)
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