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5. For initial collections, there should be no conflicts with previously scheduled or running jobs
containing the same data types. Click Finish .
6. Verify that your collection job has completed before proceeding to the next step. To do so, click the
Jobs button at the top of the Portal window to access the Jobs Summary .
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You can also verify jobs for the past 24 hours if you think that you may have missed your
collection job by going to Administration | Job Manager | History | Instant Collections | Past 24
Hours . Refer to the online Help for additional detail regarding Jobs.
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Collecting certain Windows data types the first time results in a secondary SID lookup (looks up user
accounts associated with a user ID) query back to the machine from which the data type was collected. To
speed up initial collections that require a SID lookup, first collect the Accounts and the Groups data types
from the Primary Domain Controller (PDC) of each domain. The PDCs have the necessary account
information, and doing so automatically resolves the SIDs. The data types that cause the automatic
additional query are:
• User Rights
• Registry Key Permissions
• Directory Permissions
• Share Permissions
• Disk Quota
• Event Log
• Services
• Processes
Exploring Windows Collection Results
Now that you have performed an initial Windows collection, you can explore that data in the VCM Portal.
VCM presents summary information in graphical SSRS charts, for machines in the active machine group,
which you can view, export, or print. The individual VCM Dashboards visible in the VCM Portal will vary,
based upon which VCM components you have licensed. Each VCM Dashboard is run only when the node
is selected against the current data available in the CMDB for machines in the active machine group.
Therefore, Dashboard data is only current as of the time when it was collected. In addition, it may take
time for the data to display based upon the volume or complexity of the data requested.
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