Software Assets, Related Software Items but no Related Hardware Assets

Adam_Dzyacky

It's the first time I've ever seen anything like this when building up a Software Asset and specifically I was building an SA to pickup SCOM Agent installs:

1. Build the asset
2. Define the match criteria (Software Pattern = "Microsoft Monitoring Agent")

The workflow runs and under Related Assets finds all the related Software Items matching this criteria, but doesn't return any Related Computers. Searching machines in SCSM, I can see the SCOM Agent install listed as an installed software item. All other defined assets continue to work as expected. I've tried wild carding the software pattern thinking there was an extra space or something but no joy on this one.

Running version v7.5.2012.148

Adam_Dzyacky

It appears I have both asked and answered my own question:

I checked the Software Update logs and notice they recently started erroring out in the last week or so:

2016/12/03 05:30:51.929 - Error - System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: source
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.FirstOrDefault[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source, Func`2 predicate)
   at Cireson.AssetManagement.Workflows.UpdateSoftwareAssets.a(IComposableProjection A_0, IComposableProjection A_1)
   at Cireson.AssetManagement.Workflows.UpdateSoftwareAssets.Execute(ActivityExecutionContext executionContext)

Before this event I noticed a lot of "Skipped asset "ASSETNAMEHERE". Locations do not match." I then realized that recently I had defined a location attribute on the SCOM Agent Asset. I removed this relationship, ran the workflow again and boom!

That said - I'm not sure if there is any official Cireson documentation/anything that would have led me to this "unallowed" relationship outside of this error. Just in case @Joe_Burrows or @Wally_Mead is interested

Adam_Dzyacky

It appears I have both asked and answered my own question:

I checked the Software Update logs and notice they recently started erroring out in the last week or so:

2016/12/03 05:30:51.929 - Error - System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: source
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.FirstOrDefault[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source, Func`2 predicate)
   at Cireson.AssetManagement.Workflows.UpdateSoftwareAssets.a(IComposableProjection A_0, IComposableProjection A_1)
   at Cireson.AssetManagement.Workflows.UpdateSoftwareAssets.Execute(ActivityExecutionContext executionContext)

Before this event I noticed a lot of "Skipped asset "ASSETNAMEHERE". Locations do not match." I then realized that recently I had defined a location attribute on the SCOM Agent Asset. I removed this relationship, ran the workflow again and boom!

That said - I'm not sure if there is any official Cireson documentation/anything that would have led me to this "unallowed" relationship outside of this error. Just in case @Joe_Burrows or @Wally_Mead is interested

Joe_Burrows

Thanks Adam! I have taken note