Collection Evaluation Viewer
Applies to: Configuration Manager (current branch)
Collection Evaluation Viewer is one of the Configuration Manager tools. Use it to view and troubleshoot the collection evaluation process on the primary site server.
Important
Starting in Configuration Manager version 2103, this standalone tool isn't supported. The tool is no longer included with the Configuration Manager installation source. Starting in version 2010, its functionality is built-in to the console. For more information, see, How to view collection evaluation.
The tool displays the following information:
Both historic and live information for full and incremental collection evaluations
The evaluation queue status
The time for collection evaluations to complete
Which collections are currently being evaluated
The estimated time that a collection evaluation will start and complete
About collection evaluation
The collection evaluation process runs by evaluating the membership rules of a collection to update its members. The site places a collection that it's evaluating in one of four different queues:
Manual Queue: For collections that an administrator has manually selected for evaluation from the console
New Queue: For newly created collections
Full Queue: For collections due for full evaluation
Incremental Queue: For collections with incremental evaluation
There are four threads that run to evaluate the collections in the above queues. Each queue includes a series of arrays, and each array includes the collections to be evaluated. The thread that's running for the queue selects a collection from the array and runs the evaluation. The queue length indicates the number of arrays in the queue.
Requirements
Run the tool on the site server
Run the tool by an administrative user with at least the Read-Only Analyst role
The user also requires Read permission to the site database in SQL
SQL must be on the default port
Usage
Run CEViewer.exe. The main menu of the tool contains the following tabs:
Connect: Establish the initial connection to the primary site server and SQL Server
Full Evaluation: Lists the detailed information about all past full evaluations
Incremental evaluation: Lists the detailed information about all past incremental evaluations
All Queues: Summarizes the current collection evaluations for all four queues
Manual Queue: Lists the detailed information about the current collection evaluation in the manual queue
New Queue: Lists the detailed information about the current collection evaluation in the new queue
Full Queue: Lists the detailed information about the current collection evaluation in the full queue
Incremental Queue: Lists the detailed information about the current collection evaluation in the incremental queue
Connect tab
This tab allows you to establish the initial connection to the primary site server. The tool also establishes a connection to the SQL Server that hosts the site database.
The connections to both primary site server and SQL Servers use the current signed-in user credential. Connections to the central administration site or a secondary site aren't supported. No collection evaluation process runs on those sites.
Once the tool successfully establishes a connection, see a notification at the bottom of the Collection Evaluation Viewer that confirms the tool's connection to the SQL Server.
Full Evaluation tab
Shows detailed information about past full collection evaluations. There are eight columns:
Collection Name: Name of the collection
Site ID: Site ID of the collection
Run Time: How long the last collection evaluation ran, in seconds
Last Evaluation Completion Time: When the last collection evaluation completed
Next Evaluation Time: When the next full evaluation starts
Member Changes: The member changes in the last collection evaluation. These changes are either plus (members added) or minus (members removed).
Last Member Change Time: The most recent time that there was a membership change in the collection evaluation
Percent: The percentage of evaluation time for this collection over the total (all collections) evaluation time
Incremental evaluation tab
Shows detailed information about past incremental collection evaluations. There are seven columns:
Collection Name: Name of the collection
Site ID: Site ID of the collection
Run Time: How long the last collection evaluation ran, in seconds
Last Evaluation Completion Time: When the last collection evaluation completed
Member Changes: The member changes in the last collection evaluation. These changes are either plus (members added) or minus (members removed).
Last Member Change Time: The most recent time that there was a membership change in the collection evaluation
Percent: The percentage of evaluation time for this collection over the total (all collections) evaluation time
All Queues tab
Summarizes the live collection evaluations for all four queues. There are six sections:
Summary: Lists the total collection number and the queue length for all collections in all four queues
Running Evaluation: Lists which collection is currently being evaluated in each queue, and how long it has been running
Manual Update: Shows a brief summary of the collections being evaluated, the estimated completion time, and the order of the evaluation in the manual queue
New Collection: Shows a brief summary of the collections being evaluated, the estimated completion time, and the order of the evaluation in the new collection queue
Full Evaluation: Shows a brief summary of the collections being evaluated, the estimated completion time, and the order of the evaluation in the full evaluation queue
Incremental Evaluation: Shows a brief summary of the collections being evaluated, the estimated completion time, and the order of the evaluation in the incremental evaluation queue
Manual Queue tab
Shows information about the manual collection evaluation currently being evaluated. The order in the list is the order in which the collection will be evaluated. There are four columns:
Collection Name: Name of the collection
Site ID: Site ID of the collection
Estimated Completion Time: When the evaluation is estimated to complete
Estimated Run Time: How long the evaluation is estimated to run, in day:hour:minute:second format
New Queue tab
Shows the live information about the new collection evaluation being evaluated. The order in the list is the order in which the collection will be evaluated. There are four columns:
Collection Name: Name of the collection
Site ID: Site ID of the collection
Estimated Completion Time: When the evaluation is estimated to complete
Estimated Run Time: How long the evaluation is estimated to run, in day:hour:minute:second format
Full Queue tab
Shows information about the full collection evaluation currently being evaluated. The order in the list is the order in which the collection will be evaluated. There are four columns:
Collection Name: Name of the collection
Site ID: Site ID of the collection
Estimated Completion Time: When the evaluation is estimated to complete
Estimated Run Time: How long the evaluation is estimated to run, in day:hour:minute:second format
Incremental Queue tab
Shows information about the incremental collection evaluation currently being evaluated. The order in the list is the order in which the collection will be evaluated. There are four columns:
Collection Name: Name of the collection
Site ID: Site ID of the collection
Estimated Completion Time: When the evaluation is estimated to complete
Estimated Run Time: How long the evaluation is estimated to run, in day:hour:minute:second format