I am STILL trying to get the issue resolved where my server will not process hardware inventory. I tested and the issue is fixed in SP2 so I decided to just load all the hotfixes that are included in SP2 one at a time and test HINV to see if it process after each one. That got very boring very fast so I loaded all the hotfixes that mention smsexec.exe, one of them includes an update to the client which I pushed out. I also did a site reset afterwards because several of the hotfixes ask you to do that. Now I get this error in dataldr.log. I was not getting this before loading the hotfixes. The screen shot shows which hotfixes I installed






************ SERVICE THREAD IS STARTING ************ SMS_INVENTORY_DATA_LOADER 6/22/2009 10:33:31 AM 3016 (0x0BC8)
Starting counter thread SMS_INVENTORY_DATA_LOADER 6/22/2009 10:33:32 AM 3016 (0x0BC8)
Cannot decrypt SQL server login password. SMS_INVENTORY_DATA_LOADER 6/22/2009 10:33:32 AM 3016 (0x0BC8)
STATMSG: ID=599 SEV=E LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_INVENTORY_DATA_LOADER" SYS=SCCM1 SITE=A01 PID=2516 TID=3016 GMTDATE=Mon Jun 22 15:33:32.003 2009 ISTR0="" ISTR1="" ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=0 SMS_INVENTORY_DATA_LOADER 6/22/2009 10:33:32 AM 3016 (0x0BC8)
CInvDataLoader::GetConfigurationInformation - failed SMS_INVENTORY_DATA_LOADER 6/22/2009 10:33:32 AM 3016 (0x0BC8)
Fatal error, retry in 30 seconds. SMS_INVENTORY_DATA_LOADER 6/22/2009 10:33:32 AM 3016 (0x0BC8)
Starting counter thread... SMS_INVENTORY_DATA_LOADER 6/22/2009 10:33:32 AM 3024 (0x0BD0)
Cannot decrypt SQL server login password. SMS_INVENTORY_DATA_LOADER 6/22/2009 10:34:09 AM 3016 (0x0BC8)
STATMSG: ID=599 SEV=E LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_INVENTORY_DATA_LOADER" SYS=SCCM1 SITE=A01 PID=2516 TID=3016 GMTDATE=Mon Jun 22 15:34:09.546 2009 ISTR0="" ISTR1="" ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=0 SMS_INVENTORY_DATA_LOADER 6/22/2009 10:34:09 AM 3016 (0x0BC8)
CInvDataLoader::GetConfigurationInformation - failed SMS_INVENTORY_DATA_LOADER 6/22/2009 10:34:09 AM 3016 (0x0BC8)
Fatal error, retry in 30 seconds. SMS_INVENTORY_DATA_LOADER 6/22/2009 10:34:09 AM 3016 (0x0BC8)

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