Is there a way to disable Asset Inventory for all Windows nodes en-mass?
We are seeing behavior where the getpendingupdates.vbs may be contributing to unexpected server reboots and we need to eliminate it as a cause.
You can disable Asset Inventory data collection for individial nodes by updating the [AssetInventory_Polling] table in the Orion database. See Disable - Remove Asset Inventory data collection in the SolarWinds Success Center for details.
Hello we are seeing this issue too, we are having unexpected reboots after this scripts execution happens, is this a know issue?
I was never able to prove it out conclusively. It was only happening on a very select few servers, a dozen or so out of thousands of windows nodes. Once I removed the asset monitoring for those nodes the issue went away. New nodes have had the asset polling enabled again and we haven't seen the issue since. It looks like it was endpoint specific and the vb script highlighted the issue.
I have only seen this behavior on windows 2008 R2 servers, when trying to locate this script on other servers that have asset inventory enabled i don't find this script inside the server
You can try to disable the Windows Update Polling in Asset Inventory as described here
Re: How do I stop getupdatedates.vbs?
In recent versions of Asset Inventory it is possible to disable polling multiple nodes in once as described here
https://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/3058#comment-347861
Since the version of AssetInventory - 2020.2.1 the update polling can be disabled by an advanced configuration setting ScriptPollingEnabled. So you can poll everything as usual, just Windows Update info is skipped.
Would you have the exact location of where I can find this advanced config? I can't find it under the polling setting section. We're on 2020.2.1 hf4.
Edit: found it.. need to go to https://<orionserverIP/hostname>/Orion/Admin/AdvancedConfiguration/Global.aspx
I searched for "script" and found it:
Note - if you are on 2020.2.1 HF1 or HF2, please upgrade to 2020.2.4 as soon as possible. See this FAQ for more information: https://www.solarwinds.com/sa-overview/new-digital-certificate
Brilliant - thank you! I keep forgetting about that esoteric page.
