David_Di_Blasio

Hi. You'll just need to browse for components and add what you want to a new template. This can be accomplished through the "Component Monitor Wizard" in Applications tab > SAM Settings > Component Monitor Wizard.

Sure is. Here's some steps that detail out how to set this type of task up. To shutdown or reboot a managed computer: 1. In the tree view in the left pane of the application, expand the Microsoft Windows Network level. 2. Select a workgroup or domain from the tree view. The managed computers within the selected workgroup…

I've seen this happen whenever the certificates were previous deployed via group policy. Is this the case in your environment by chance?

Hi Andrew, Here's a snippet from the following KB article: SolarWinds Knowledge Base :: ERROR: All management servers are unavailable for management group. 200 certificates The following are examples of certificates that are generally considered safe to delete: Expired certificates Unknown foreign certificates Certificates…

Try running through the following steps: 1. Right click on the problematic update and select the delete option. 2. Select the Software Publishing node and click Synchronize Now! 3. After the sync has completed and the package template is back in the catalogs right click on the update and choose the Download Content option.…

There seems to be a temporary issue with the SolarWinds customer portal. In the meantime you can still access this content via the following steps. 1. Click the license management tab on the left hand side. 2. Click Choose Download for Patch Manager. 3. Select Patch Manager Upgrade Download (58757 KB)

I don't believe there's a way to modify this behavior as the Windows Update Agent is executing the update under a defined and unchangeable user context.

Were these packages previously published with a 512-bit certificate, and you've now deleted and republished using a 2048-bit certificate?

Here's a list of ports from page 7 of http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/patchman/docs/PatchManagerAdministratorGuide.pdf Server and console components use port 4092 TCP Servers communicate with managed computers using the following ports: • 135 TCP • 445 TCP • Dynamic ports 1024 to 65536 (varies by operating system)…

One possibility you have to accomplish this goal is to customize the wmi provider package to utilize packageboot to execute a post-execution task that removes the start menu item. I created a test package with the following parameters: Create remove.bat file with the following: @echo off rd "C:\Documents and Settings\All…

Per Patch Packages "A Windows Installer patch (.msp file) is a file used to deliver updates to Windows Installer applications. The patch is a self-contained package that contains all the information required to update the application." This basically means all the rules are "baked" into that package already. If you take a…

When you republished the update did you duplicate the package and publish it as a new name? The Windows Update Agent caches the binary content so this could be what is being used again.

Have you run a WSUS inventory yet? Here's a KB article that has some specific steps on how to do this. http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/3679

Sure it will work. Since a Raspberry Pi can run linux it's just a matter of installing and configuring net-snmp. Then you'll be able to add it to NPM just like any other net-snmp device.

Try running through the steps in this kb and see if you see an improvement. SolarWinds Knowledge Base :: SCCM does not sync with WSUS/SUP updates *edit Looks like you've run through one of the steps already. What are the results from prompting a full synchronization event?

I believe what you're looking at here is cached data vs the actual data that is published.

Here's the usage commands for this tool. WSUSSigningCertManagement /operation addpfx /pfxfile c:\path\filename.pfx /pfxfilepassword password /targetwsusname . /targetwsusport 80 /targetwsususessl no Note that the ‘period’ after /targetwsusname indicates to import the cert to this local machine.

What sort of data are you trying to get from these machines? Managed Computer Inventory can be set to run against your whole domain, and will collect a fair amount of information. Instructions on configuring this task can be found on page 69 of the Patch Manager Administration guide.…

There looks to be a canned report that will return the requested information in WSUS Reports > Windows Server Update Services Analytics > Computers with version and OS Architecture and approved updates status. You can modify this report and take out the unneeded rows to stream line it a bit more for your needs. Here's a…

You're right on track in regards to the file size. By default I believe the limit is 384MB. We have an unpublished tool that will allow you to increase this limit. http://downloads.solarwinds.com/solarwinds/Release/Components/EminentWare.Utilities.WSUSThirdPartyUpdatesHelper.zip The EXE has built in help, just run the EXE…

Does the user you executed the installation package have sysadmin rights on this SQL instance?

Try upgrading to 1.85.490 and see if there is an improvement.

What's the full error you are receiving?

Hi. I think most of your questions are answered in the following KB article. SolarWinds Knowledge Base :: Q&A: What's the difference between FULL and UPGRADE packages?

Are you looking for something like this? http://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-167089

A general overview on authoring custom packages can be found in the following 2 videos: Package Creation Fundamentals - http://bcove.me/7grb9jlu Package Creation - http://bcove.me/5vvei746 Here's an older thread on deploying Office 2010 which may be helpful for 2013. Re: Deploy Microsoft Office 2010

There are a number of discrete events that must occur between the time a client first discovers an update and identifies it as "needed", and the time when that client can actually install it. Any one of these discrete events can be the subject of a breakdown in the process. The key is to trace through the process and…

New release notes went live yesterday. Patch Manager v2.0 Release Notes Looks like your WOL issue is resolved in this release.

I was able to successfully publish and update a Win7 32-bit machine with the Firefox 24 package. What OS are your clients?

Does the installation ever eventually return an error code of any kind in either the Patch Manager console, or the windowsupdate.log on the client machine?