Manage Configuration Manager clients - Managing Enterprise Devices and Apps - page 260

When you click the Client Status node, the results pane displays some statistics and the
Recent Alerts section. The statistics have links showing the percentage of clients that are
healthy, unhealthy, or unknown, and active or inactive. Recent Alerts shows the alerts the
Client Health feature generates because of meeting defined thresholds for client health and
activity.
If you click the different links, this creates a temporary node under the Devices node in
the Assets And Compliance workspace, and the console changes automatically to the newly
created temporary node. Temporary nodes remain in the Configuration Manager console
until you remove them manually or close the console. For example, when you click the Active
Clients That Failed Client Check link—which denotes the clients that failed the client health
checks—a temporary node for these unhealthy clients is created and selected automatically.

MORE INFO CLIENT STATUS

You can learn more about client status at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library
/hh338432.aspx .

Client health evaluation and remediation
Client Status in the Configuration Manager console receives its information from the Client
Health evaluation engine running on each client. The Client Health evaluation engine is an
executable file named CCMEval.exe. This engine can perform health checks by using rules
and can automatically rectify some configuration problems through a process termed
remediation .
CCMEval.exe is installed with the Configuration Manager client agent and runs on comput-
ers. However, it is not part of the mobile device client. When you install the Configuration
Manager client agent, the install process creates a scheduled task named Configuration
Manager Health Evaluation. This task runs Ccmeval.exe at a time between midnight and
1:00 A.M. The client reports the results as a state message to the client's management point
or a fallback status point if the management point is unavailable.
You can run the Configuration Manager Health Evaluation process on demand by run-
ning CCMEval.exe as required. Client health evaluation and remediation is only available to
Windows-based computers. To view the client health rules that the Client Health evaluation
engine is using, you can look in the < client location >\ccmeval.xml file. You can disable
remediation of a client system by setting the following registry value to True : HKLM
\Software\Microsoft\CCM\CCMEval\NotifyOnly.
If the computer is not running when the scheduled Configuration Manager Health
Evaluation task is due to run, the task will run automatically as soon as it can, such as when