LGarvin

The small dialog explains exactly what the issue is. The machine is unable to obtain the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) or contact on Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) server to validate the authenticity of the certificate. If this system does not have Internet access, then that's a normal issue, and you'll need…

Can we get some more details? What are you using to connect? How do you have it configured? Why do you believe the observed behaviors are not appropriate?

Unfortunately this type of logic is not possible with Patch Manager because it is impossible to filter on non-existent data. The inventory captures what isInstalled. The best option you can work from here is to export the list of machines that do have a particular application installed into Excel, Access, or SQL Server,…

Notably missing from the above rules collection is the Prerequsite Ruleset. What's defined in that? When I remove the file version rule, they start working. WHICH File version rule? You have one defined in EACH ruleset! Is is the Applicability Rules that are defective, or the Installed Rules. I see apparent defects in both…

This is almost certainly because you published the WMI Providers package to WSUS, and it's still published and approved. Unfortunately, you cannot manage locally published packages from the WSUS console. Ideally, removing the approvals and deleting the packages would have occurred prior to decommissioning your EminentWare…

The best resource to use for programming against the Windows Update Agent API is the MSDN Library: Windows Update Agent API (Windows) Q1. Is there a list of all the possible format/fileext of MS updates/install tools and that I can get directly from Microsoft? It's a very short list. The Microsoft Update infrastructure…

We're going to need much more detail in order to provide any useful diagnosis of what you're experiencing, but since you've mentioned 261 updates, that leads me to the following two points: 1. There's a significant distinction between updates being Needed, updates being Approved, and updates being Available for a client to…

The PreRequisite Rules have nothing to do with whether an update is reported as Installed. PreRequesite Rules simply give you a way to unilaterally exclude an update from further applicability consideration (e.g. the machine is not Windows 7 SP1 and it's not an OptiPlex 990). You appear to have a good set of Applicability…

A few notes here. * You cannot apply an MST to an MSP, only to an MSI-based installation; however, you may be able to apply an MSP and MST simultaneously -- I've never built a package to do that though. * The Reader 10.1.3 MSP can only be used to upgrade Reader 10.1.x systems. To upgrade a Reader v8, v9, or v10.0.x system,…

Managed Computers is populated by the Managed Computer Inventory task. See this blog post for more details: Patch Manager Managed Computers Node Explained Is there a way to restrict what each one scans? Is there a way to restrict the results? These two tasks are completely different processes. * Inventory scans by computer…

attempt to connect failing Can you post a screencap of, or the actual text, of the message you receive when the connection fails? What type of "connection" are you trying to make?

SolarWinds Patch Manager

So, is it possible to perform pre patch installation tasks before patches are applied? It depends. The pre- and post-installation tasks declared via PackageBoot are per-UPDATE tasks. If you have a task that needs to be performed for a specific update, this is the tool for that job. However, the order of updates installed…

No, the installer does not support silent installs.

Sent one that said "IT is on their way"... suddenly he logged off and walked away. <VBG>.. I like these stories. Makes ya wonder if the "offender" felt that he (I'm assuming here.. safe assumption, eh?) was above rules and regulations, or never read the dialogs to begin with. Of course... "we're comin' to get you"...…

Do we need to change the service logon user to email out? No. Emails generated from scheduled tasks are sent using the configuration and credentials defined for the Application Role server that is executing the task. In Patch Manager System Configuration -> Patch Manager Servers -> Application Servers, select the Patch…

Thanks for the extensive information. Definitely overload, but the good news is that there are very simple answers to this scenario. :-) Here's what I want to accomplish: * Migrate the WSUS installation on WSUS2008 to WSUS2012. I began this process using a guide from Microsoft (Migrate Windows Server Update Services to…

The term "Deployment" in the vernacular of WSUS refers to *APPROVALS*.... so the LastDeploymentChangeTime will change anytime the Approval state of an update is changed. This would occur when a revision is posted because the approvals are shifted from the older revision to the newer revision. Your better bet for…

One possible cause for this is duplicated inventory data in the PatchMgr database. Since this is only occurring on a couple of computers, I would suggest deleting those computers from the Managed Computers group (which should purge all of their associated inventory data), and then re-run a targeted inventory task against…

It then says download and install succeeded in the patch manager console but the application did not install on the target computer. If the installation is failing, but the WUA is reporting the update as installed successfully, that would suggest that the installer is not returning an error code on installation failure, or…

Computers with successful update installations this month.xdq This brand new report template pulls for THIS (CURRENT) MONTH. If you want to pull for a defined period of time, simply modify the filter for the "Completion Time" field. Please note that this report template should be imported into the TASK HISTORY report…

So.. my first question would be... why a 3rd party certificate rather than a self-signed certificate? As for obtaining the 3rd party certificate.... that's kinda beyond our scope here, but I can certainly help you import that certificate once you obtain it. But I will say this: PAYING for a 3rd party certificate is not…

According to the APC Galaxy webpage, the Galaxy product line supports an SNMP management card. If that card is installed, the device will be SNMP-manageable, and NPM should be able to find it via discovery.

Are you using Adobe-provided MSP files for these update packages? If so, the first thing to be aware of is that the MSP contains its own detection logic. The second thing to be aware of is that over the history of Reader and Acrobat MSP update files, Adobe has screwed up about half of them as I recall. Sometimes they…

Possibly this issue is related to security contexts and what the WUAgent may or may not be able to do in regard to running the script file embedded in your EXXE file. Conventionally, the OCX would be bundled into a standard installer, as you might see with the Flash Active X installer. Another way you can approach this is…

With a forthcoming upgrade to DameWare DRS and MRC you'll be able to maintain a number of centralized configurations for all administrators. The full list of capabilities being worked on is found in this article: What We're Working On - DameWare

2013/01/30 10:41:49:283 PID: 2220 TID: 176 installer::runexepackage() failed with pathtoexe with command line (C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download\Install\vcredist_x86.exe /q). Error Code: 2 Did you include the vcredist_x86.exe in the Additional Included Files specification for the package defined with packageboot?…

So when it tries to reach WT-RSP-D002 it fails, but if I connect to the admin$ share on the machine using the full name WT-RSP-D002.domain2.sch it works just fine. Typically, when this occurs in a multi-domain environment it's an indication that the client system does not have DNS Search Suffix entries defined for the…

Greetings Leon. Syslog transmissions are individual UDP packets, which are connectionless by definition. Is it possible that your F5 is doing node assignments using source affinity? (e.g. messages from machine 'A' always go to Node '1'?) I'm not expressly familiar with the F5 products, but I do have experience with load…

Service Pack *TWO* for SQL Server 2008 R2 was released in July 2012. Lifecycles for service packs for server applications are one year, which means that support for Service Pack 1 installations expired in July, 2013. Personally I'd suggest not worrying about this two year old security update, but rather install the current…