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Greetings Wally One possibility here is the knowledge of the "connection" itself. Generally speaking, Network Atlas only handles managed nodes, and specifically connections must be associated with objects that were discovered with NPM or SAM. Nodes that were manually added to the NPM or SAM database cannot be linked with…

Greetings Jon. Part of this will depend on how its desired to define the "5% of their time" criteria. Is your director interested in knowing that from a percentage of polls perspective, or a percentage of time with a user actually working? Also, since you're looking at measuring *sites* and not individual systems, there's…

Also, I looked up a name on a PC, tried to connect to it and somehow connected to a totally different workstation? I doubl-checked name and IP of workstations and again, somehow connected to the incorrect workstation. Not sure how or why this may have happened. This is typically a function of DNS not being properly updated…

You can install an "Additional Web Server". The additional web server is primarily designed to provide access to the web console to remote locations, or to offload web console users from the primary server. But it doesn't really provide any additional, or isolated, security restrictions. All of the data is still held in…

There is no best way. There is only one way. One update at a time; one machine at a time. It's not a limitation of Patch Manager; it's a limitation of the servicing stack used by Windows to install updates. Which is one of the reasons the message in this article from a couple of years ago is still as every bit important…

Does PM have non-english catalogs for third party updates? It does not Mike. Will I need to duplicate the english one and make manual modifications? Yes. And, generally speaking, there are three, possibly four mods you'll need to make. * There's usually a system language rule in the Prerequisite Ruleset. * There's a…

I believe this msi is ignoring the /norestart switch. Correct. We make that note in the Package Wizard. Using REBOOT=ReallySuppress switch seems to correct the problem with these msi so it doesn’t immediately reboot after completing the install. Glad you found a solution. (Similar to how we use that same parameter in the…

Description: The Windows Installer initiated a system restart to complete or continue the configuration of 'Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook 3.4.360.960'. Scott.... this isn't a package provided by Solarwinds or Microsoft. How can I configure packages with Patch Manger to never reboot and only prompted as it has…

..but the server is assigned for SQL server has 3 hdd's. With only three drives you don't really have a lot of choice. Three drives can only be configured as RAID-5, and a single RAID-5 array is a poor choice for a SQL Server. Also, I would think that the R320-4200 with eight 2.5" bays is a better design for a SQL Server…

"There is a version mismatch between the WSUS Server API version: 3.2.7600.274 and the WSUS Client API version: 3.2.7600.226" It means that you have applied KB2938066 to your WSUS server, but you have not applied it to the Patch Manager server. The Patch Manager server installed KB2734608, by default, but not KB2938066…

Greetings Andrew. As the Product Manager for Patch Manager, and a Microsoft MVP (for WSUS), I'm monitoring this entire process with an eagle eye. My understanding of the coming "hardening" of the WSUS environment is an update to the Windows Update Agent that will cause it to significantly reduce the scope of Microsoft…

The important thing to understand is that you cannot directly compare labels in WSUS to labels in Patch Manager, because they are not equivalent. In WSUS there are only four reportable states: Installed, Needed, NotApplicable, and Failed. The Needed state includes three substates: NotInstalled, Downloaded, and…

WHERE ( DateTime BETWEEN 41553 AND 41584 ) This DateTime range is based on how SQL Server stores dates internally. All text date formats are simply presentations of a stored integer value. SmallDateTime values are stored as 4 byte integers (max value = 2^16 or 65536 days) and DateTime values are stored as 2 4-byte integers…

Currently there is no End-of-Support date announced for Patch Manager v1.73.x The Solarwinds.com website has an End-of-Support page, which shows that v1.71.x will be supported through 12/12/2013.

So the result ends up being the first five (oldest) events found vs the the most recent events Does the query without the 'TOP 5' return those 25 events in the correct sort order? What happens if you run the 'TOP 5' version with ORDER BY E.EventTime ASC? I agree that EventTime DESC should return the most recent events, and…

Greetings Dan A number of customers have Patch Manager working across firewalls. It's design was optimized for that purpose. However, NAT is always problematic for any sort of application. The first question I need to ask is exactly how you are facilitating the connection between the primary server on your network and any…

The Windows Update Agent reports back a successful installation (as opposed to a failed installation) based on the Success Return Code offered up by the installer. The Windows Update Agent reports back the *Installed* update status based on the evaluation of the Installed Ruleset in the package. If the WUAgent is launching…

A patch has been approved for a system and it shows as "Needed" in the patch manager console. However, it does not show up in Windows Update on the system. This is a very common scenario in WSUS environments, and I've discussed it several times in the TechNet WSUS forum. Generally it's a function of misunderstanding the…

Well, actually, attempting to activate the same code on a second PAS will fail. There are two ways you can approach this objective: If the dev/test environment is network-connected to the production environment (well, even if it isn't, it's just tricker), you can install a Secondary Application Server (SAS), which will…

You'll need to open a ticket with Customer Service to get the existing activation removed. Activations are tied to a machine name, so since the machine name has changed the original activation code is no longer usable. Once your license for ET v10 has been de-activated, you can log into the Customer Portal and create a new…

Monitoring on a Windows desktop OS has special considerations because the local administrator account is disabled by default. You'll need to do one of the following: 1. Enable the local Administrator account and use that. 2. Add a Domain User account to the local Administrators group and reboot the workstation so that the…

Subsequent to this original post, we added an additional feature to the product that allows you to explicitly save an on-demand task to the Scheduled Tasks node, without have to actually schedule it. On the Scheduling and Notification Options dialog, check the "Save Task.." checkbox under the "Run Task Now" radio button.

I think that wants to be a "Trigger Alert when *ALL* of the following apply" condition.

If I only need to do this on one of the replica servers, can the xml file be edited, and the names of other servers removed? Yes, if you don't want to invoke the configuration change on one or more downstream servers, you can delete those elements from the exported XML file before running the /command changeconfig.…

There's a couple of things going on here that I'd offer comment on. First, my suggestion would be to complete the migration of the upstream server WITHOUT invoking SSL, and ensure that all downstream servers are properly communicating with the new upstream server WITHOUT SSL. THEN.... go through the process of implementing…

I added a transform file and the switch TRANSFORM=acroread.mst. The correct switch is TRANSFORMS=. KB4187 describes how to include a transform file with an MSI-based package. However, when the mst file is added I get a message that it does not exist in the database. Can you provide the exact text of the error message? or…

There are three ways you can approach this: Explicitly deploy them in the order of installation required. Bundle them as a single MSI which calls them as subordinate MSIs, somewhat how Office does an installation. Script their installation as PackageBoot(tm) rules with the 2nd thru 5th MSIs as PostInstallation steps, all…

How are people dealing with updates that require/force IE (or another app) to close? Most organizations don't patch desktop applications during the workday, so this is not normally an issue. but a lot of people shut down their computers at night so that's not ideal. This is a human resource and operations management issue.…

Greetings Tyson. The process flow for managing 3rd party updates with Configuration Manager 2007 is this: 1. Select updates for publication to the Software Update Point and publish. 2. Synchronize the Site Server to the Software Update Point to get the Update Repository populated with the newly published updates. (Note: If…

What does V6 get me. In addition to the integration with NPM & SAM, VMAN v6 provides resizable widgets and enhanced capabilities for collecting performance and capacity information about Hyper-V storage. You can get complete details in the v6.0 Release Notes, and the v6.0.1 Release Notes and you can tour these new features…