Hi All, Wish you a Happy New Year 2012. I’m facing issues with package distribution to primary, secondary and DPs. It is showing Install pending state for long time. it is happening for only one location primary,Secondary and DPs. Package stuck at some point of time and showing install pending status. If I reboot the primary server and remove package from Primary, SS and DPs and again if I redistribute it is copying. But I cannot reboot server for each and every package. How to monitor once we copy package to DPs. (primary, SS and DPs) is there any tool for that..any logs.. I know that we need monitor distmgr.log, despool.log.. But that is not clear. I mean how much bandwidth is using for one DP. How much % copied...Like that And I’m able to see few file extensions while package copying like .PCK,.PKN,.ICO,.NAL etc., can anybody explain what is these files… Thanks in advance!!!

See, the details in the below blog post (the distribution process is explained in details in that post). Even, you can have a look at the flowcharts available in the technet for more details. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/steverac/archive/2010/07/16/understanding-site-to-site-communication-in-sms-sccm.aspx Flow Chart - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb932212.aspx Anoop C Nair - @anoopmannur MY BLOG: http://anoopmannur.wordpress.com User Group: ConfigMgr Professionals This posting is provided AS-IS with no warranties/guarantees and confers no rights.

All communication between sites can be monitored by reading the sender.log on the site server. Once the package has been received on the child site (and when it's prepared on the central site), track the activities in the distrmgr.logKent Agerlund | My blogs: blog.coretech.dk/kea and SCUG.dk/ | Twitter: @Agerlund | Linkedin: Kent Agerlund

thanks for the links

thanks for the update.

pkn is package notification file when it writes to distmgr.box folder for each package,sccm(distmgr) will create 3 files i.e pkg--package,program detials information ,NAL--distribution Points,.ICO--Icon file information. For more info about troubleshooting packages between the sites,look at this technet link with flowcharts http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc723598.aspx Please click on "vote as Helpful" if you feel this post helpful to you. Eswar Koneti | My Tech blog: eskonr.com | Linkedin: Eswar Koneti

badribabu below article give a brief description about the flows how data flow from one end to other and details about each log file what they do. http://configmgrdiaries.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/smsconfigmgr-systemflow/. http://configmgrdiaries.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/pliki-logow-sccm/. hope it helps Syed Kasif | My blogs: http://syedtechblog.wordpress.com | Linkedin: /syedkashif

See, the details in the below blog post (the distribution process is explained in details in that post). Even, you can have a look at the flowcharts available in the technet for more details. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/steverac/archive/2010/07/16/understanding-site-to-site-communication-in-sms-sccm.aspx Flow Chart - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb932212.aspx Anoop C Nair - @anoopmannur MY BLOG: http://anoopmannur.wordpress.com User Group: ConfigMgr Professionals This posting is provided AS-IS with no warranties/guarantees and confers no rights.

badribabu below article give a brief description about the flows how data flow from one end to other and details about each log file what they do. http://configmgrdiaries.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/smsconfigmgr-systemflow/. http://configmgrdiaries.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/pliki-logow-sccm/. hope it helps Syed Kasif | My blogs: http://syedtechblog.wordpress.com | Linkedin: /syedkashif