How to audit collection changes in SCCM?
Hi all, I want to be able to audit changes to collections in SCCM (such as when a helpdesk person adds a PC to a colelction for software deployment), I have looked in the Colleval.log file, and used the Status Message Queries, but these only seem to say who made a change and when. I also want to be able to see what the change was, but how do I get that info out of SCCM? Without knowing what the change was, the audit seems pointless. Any help greatly appreciatedJames
March 11th, 2010 5:36pm

Hi,Navigate to Status Messages, Status Messages Queries. here you will find two Audit status message queries. One for the site and for for a specific user. Those will tell you who did what and when.Kent Agerlund | http://scug.dk/members/Agerlund/default.aspx | The Danish community for System Center products
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March 11th, 2010 6:00pm

I don't think that's possible. Because if a collection was changed, the collection query could be a small change, like from "all os type 5.0 to 5.2". That's 1 small character, 0 vs. 2, but the collection query results are drastic.You'd almost have to take snapshots in time of the results of every possible combination of v_fullcollectionmembership, and keep those around for days/weeks, just so you could compare from 10 am to 10:05am.Standardize. Simplify. Automate.
March 11th, 2010 7:20pm

Matthew is right - I have seen the output of what Kent mentioned, but it is simply not enough - with the current output of status message queries I could make a change, and all anyone would know is that a change was made to "Collection A" by "James" - If I want to use auditing to catch who added a specific computer/query rule to a collection, how can I do that? How does the change get flagged/amended in the database? Is is possible to pull this level of detail from the logs, or somewhere in the inboxes folder - SCCM must record what the change is in order to make the update, since the Colleval.log seems to tell us how many changes have occured to a collection? James
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March 11th, 2010 9:38pm

This kind of detail is not recorded anywhere that i can think of. The server knows and makes the change it doesn't keep track of what that change was. You would need a snap shot before and after to know what computer was added or what query was modified.http://www.sccm-tools.com http://sms-hints-tricks.blogspot.com
March 12th, 2010 4:20am

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