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Greetings Jeff. You're in exactly the right place. In addition to changing the Options | Computers value to "Use the console..", you will also need to DISABLE the GPO setting for Use client-side targeting, so that the clients will query the WSUS server for their group membership assignments. With the policy setting…

Quite likely you can build this yourself using the Report Builder. All of those fields should be available in the datasources in the Computer (System Information) report category.

...explaining that we only have about 300 clients in each site that each patch manager server will responsible for, How many sites/clients total in the enterprise? I'm assuming from the description that these sites already have WSUS servers. If so, then yes, it would be appropriate to install a Patch Manager Automation…

LEM Appliance uptime is available from the appliance ... * Select Advanced Configuration * Enter manager * Enter viewsysinfo NOTE: The uptime is at the top of that display, and ultimately it produces screens and screens of state information, so a rapid jump on the Ctrl-C key can prove useful to get just the first few lines…

I'm checking to see if it can be done from the appliance or console; I wasn't able to immediately identify any way. However, I was able to identify uptime from my hypervisor console, which displays uptime statistics for the VM.

It is not currently possible to silently install the Patch Manager console.

The message "Violation of PRIMARY KEY" is an indication that the object already exists. The table 'dbo.UpdateServicesServer' is a Patch Manager table, not a WSUS table. The above error message indicates that you may be attempting to register a WSUS server that is already registered with Patch Manager. You say that you are…

I am having trouble finding how to edit/create discovery tasks There is no way to change the IP subnet targets of a Discovery Task. You can create a new task to cover the new ranges (recommended), or you can create a new task to replace the old ranges + new ranges. To create a Discovery Task: * Navigate to Patch Manager…

How was the update task configured for the reboot, was this a "Reboot if required.." option, or an "Always reboot" option? Patch Manager actually launches that reboot via a WMI call after noting the completion of all update installation tasks. A relevant question would be whether the server was rebooted at all, or not.…

Couple of considerations here. First, the Orion Web Console retrieves its information from the Patch Manager server, so whatever data is presented in the MMC console should match what's on the web. However, in a Configuration Manager environment, compliance data is not reported to the WSUS Server (Software Update Point) by…

This would be the primary purpose of the Update Management tool in Patch Manager.

Harold, it appears that the maintenance for your Web Help Desk v10 did expire on March 31, 2012. Did you receive an invoice or any communications regarding the maintenance renewal? I see that you opened a ticket with support and they also noted your maintenace had expired on 3/31/2012. and advised you that to renew your…

We have an Oracle system and it needs to run Java 7 Update 51. Is there a way to load a prior approved version that I don't need to recreate from scratch? Not unless you previously downloaded the binaries for that update. Oracle no longer makes legacy binaries available for use; such as to encourage the use of the latest…

It may help to clarify what actually is happening here, which will help to diagnose. It appears to me from the information provided that an attempt to connect to a system is being made, specifically to the system MIS30, and the issue is connecting to the system, not "the domain". ARP Resolution result: Yes DNS Resolution…

There are actually many possible reasons why this might have happened. First, 12 hours is a lot more realistic for patching 600 systems than 2 hours is, so I think it might help to have some additional background on how you normally patch 600 systems in 2 hours. Second, the mix of updates in a patch cycle can significantly…

Greetings Russ. I'm told that we did not observe any behavior like this in the deployment testing we did on the package prior to its publication, and this is the first we've heard of any issue since its publication a week ago. Can you provide some more specifics as to the specific operating systems, service pack levels,…

I don't believe that it can read direct from disk, but you can have the local machine send to Kiwi. For a Windows machine you'll also want to install the Kiwi Log Forwarder for Windows

Is it possible to keep say 240 mins uncompressed netflow data, then it compress to hourly for 14 days, then compress to daily after 14 days or similar? Is there a setting already that i can use to set this up? As Ondrej noted, the preferred approach is to upgrade to NTA4 and implement the Flow Storage Database; however, if…

Although version 1.80.778.0 is what has been automatically deployed, version 1.80.785.0 is what seems to be available under the SolarWinds, Inc. Packages. The fact that v1.80.778 of the WMI Providers is being distributed, suggests that you have *RC2* installed, not the Release version. The Release Version of Patch Manager…

Greetings Doug. 1. Every connection to a managed system originates from the Automation Role server. The inventory data collected from a client is sent to the Management Server that hosts the Management Group that the client is assigned to. One Management Server per Management Group. 2. You do not need to install a…

It looks like the attempt to copy the file from the Patch Manager server to the WSUS server failed. Message: An I/O exception occurred while copying the data from the item to its destination Are you able to successfully publish any other updates?

You should be using a commercial Microsoft SQL Server instance with your NTA v3 (or earlier) installation. Express Edition is definitely problematic for handling NetFlow data, not just because of the space limitations, but also because of the performance limitations. With NTA 4.0, however, we provide a new datastore that…

The Windows Update Log/List in the GUI (in german: Updateverlauf) say that yesterday the install of the new package (jre7u60) failed. After I ran Windows Update manually the log says jre7u55 were installed successfully and after that jre7u60 were installed successfully. My guess would be that you customized the JRE7u60…

This is a fundamental limitation of the way in which Patch Manager implements the use of that dialog. While the dialog, itself, does support multi-selection, our call to that dialog is only designed to work with one object at a time. This will require multiple invocations of the "Add computers using rules" dialog to define…

My question is, the value "Run program from package directory" is like the "Working Directory". Does this modify the path to execute the "Program Name"? Since cscript is usually in the PATH, do, can I just leave it set at ""Run program from package directory"? Since all three utilities are in the %SYSTEM% folder, I would…

I'm trying to create a simple third party package that evaluates as applicable if a file is missing from the client workstation and as installed if the file exists, but the agent is not reporting the expected status of the package. The size, version and date of the file are irrelevant and may change so I don't want to…

Greetings Bryan. The content available via WSUS is the same content available via Microsoft Update. As you note, there is a distinction between WU and MU. WU is OS-only content; MU includes application content. The content from MU is acquired by WSUS by enabling one or more of those product categories in the WSUS Products…

Thank you for posting in Thwack, Harold. After performing the steps as documented in this article: http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/759/How+do+I+fully+uninstall+Orion+NPM%3F and yes, unfortunately, the process does involve some manual removal steps, what do you still have left. Can you share an image of…

Is there a way to automatically assign computers to a WSUS Computer Group using OUs Yes. It's called Client-Side Targeting and is a native feature of WSUS. From the WSUS Deployment Guide: Plan WSUS Computer Groups From the WSUS Operations Guide: Manage WSUS Client Computers and Computer Groups

Greetings Jacob. There is an IDEA currently available for voting that considers being able to send a notification on Task Initiation, but there is no functionality in Patch Manager to send notifications in the manner you describe.