LGarvin

The inventory tasks are always full-scale data collection efforts. With the WMI Managed Computer Inventory you have the ability to choose what you collect, and when (or how often) you collected it, but it has a dependency on RPC/WMI. The WSUS Extended Inventory is an all-or-nothing proposition. All clients, all data…

So.. I have good news... and bad news.. depending on your perspective. I was able to successfully publish your package. There's nothing wrong with the *package* as relates to the publishing operation. So, if you could post a screenshot of the actual error message you're receiving, possibly I can get a better handle on…

It's certainly possible. Patch Manager provides the ability to configure the Windows Update Agent via Local Policy, as well as the ability to fully manage services on remote systems. However, doing so would be a fatal error, as the Automatic Updates service (aka the Windows Update service on Vista and newer systems) is…

AgreeToLicense=YES auto-accepts the EULA. JAVAUPDATE=0 temporarily disables the auto-updater so that this package can be installed without being adversely affected by the auto-updater doing something conflicting. Using the mods presented in David's package are one way to approach disabling the desktop auto-updater. The…

You'll need to re-create that view. It's a custom view (user-defined). SolarWinds Knowledge Base :: How to create a third party updates view in the Patch Manager console

The remote certificate is invalid Well... :-) That'll do it every time. Question becomes: Why is it invalid? When were these certs built? When do they expire? What key length do they have? Are they using SHA-1 or SHA-256?

lalitha wrote: By default, all client systems in the DMZ are standalone machines that do not communicate with each other. All ports on the network are blocked unless specified in our corporate firewall. The windows firewall is turned off. Okay.. second part of this response.... If the Windows Firewall is turned off, then…

It would be great if we can specify 1 port that will be used for WMI. I would like to know if the above option ( Setting Up a Fixed Port for WMI ) would solve our purpose? That is the intent of that article.

I saw in another post about downloading a newer version of SWQL Studio from the SDK. That also could be related. The current version of the SDK, v1.8, is available at http://downloads.solarwinds.com/solarwinds/Release/Orion/OrionSDK-1.8.zip SWQL Studio is a component of the SDK.

Unfortunately, that is the design of the product. The report definitions are stored as XML and the SQL is dynamically generated at runtime from the XML. But when a Scheduled Task gets created, the SQL gets hard-coded into the scheduled task. Your other option would be to rebuild the task as a OnceOnly task every…

I read the ticket history ... given that the browser is giving you a certificate warning, that would suggest that the machine you are browsing from does not have the SolarWinds SSL certificate installed. Adding the site to "Trusted Sites" won't help at all if the SSL Certificate is not downloaded and installed. I think the…

I do believe that prompt is caused because JRE7 is still installed on the machine. It's triggered by the JRE6 autoupdater (because there are no more update for JRE6 and Oracle has coded that response from the web server side of the autoupdater's connection). Take special note, if you deployed JRE7 using Patch Manager, then…

My personal suggestion is to uninstall JRE7 as a completely separate task once you've confirmed the successful installation of JRE8. Generally speaking, the two versions are designed to co-exist side-by-side so there's no requirement to uninstall JRE7. Any Java application not explicitly configured to use JRE7 will begin…

No videos on YouTube, but there was a collection of videos hosted on the EminentWare.com website. Links to those videos are available here on the Thwack site in the Library and Support collection. Package Creation Video #1 - covers fundamentals of update metadata and installation file specifications. Package Creation Video…

Thank you. The resources at eminentware.com are no longer available. Apparently I missed this link when I updated the rest last fall. The procedures originally discussed in that video, many of which have changed since the video was first produced, are now covered in the Patch Manager Administrator Guide.

Appears that the agent install is not reporting correctly in the "update details" tab, but is reporting correctly in the "update events' tab under WSUS Server\Third Party Updates. What was the Last Refresh Date of that Third-Party Updates view? Since we know from the Event History tab that several clients have downloaded,…

For example, is it checking the value of a registry key or is it using the registry to find the version of the file? The File Version With Registry rule uses a Registry Key/Value to identify a base installation folder for the product. The pathname is stored in the Registry Value. It then appends the value from Sub-path to…

First, you definitely don't want to be testing keys inside a userprofile tree. But let's simplify this. Is there a registry key HKLM\Software\Altaro or HKLM\Software\Altaro\Hyper-V Backup or something like that in the HKLM\Software node?

Computer Explorer | Windows Update Settings should reflect the current installed version, but there may be some values that did not get updated in this process by Microsoft. I'll look into these. In the Report... that's based on the information inventoried from the WSUS server, which contains the version number reported by…

Certs and policy do appear good. Let's go back and take another look at what's happening on the client. Please do the following: * Restart the Windows Update service. * Run a detection using wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow. * After the detection completes, attempt to deploy the JRE6u45 update to the client. *…

A common issue in this particular scenario is that the client has already downloaded the installation file for the update. Since the UpdateID did not change, the WUAgent thinks it still has the correct installation file and does not re-validate that fact. If the original installation file was the wrong file, the client…

There's only one error you will ever get in the native console, and that's the timeout/disconnect/whatever with the "Reset Server" button. Whatever the actual wording is (doesn't really matter) ... if you're doing this from the native console, click on "Reset Server" and relaunch the Server Cleanup Wizard. -OR- you could…

I really don’t know how to read the windowsupdate log. What is the best way for you to help me with that? Email it to me, please. You can get my email address from my Thwack Profile.

Done ... same results, both see as wanting to install it. Well, shucks. The only logical conclusion I can draw from all of this is that it's not correctly evaluating the Registry Value rule. What I suspect is happening is that the rule, which should evaluate as TRUE, and then NOT TRUE == FALSE, thus making the entire…

You'll need to remove that domain from the first management group before it can be added to the second. That may be somewhat tricky if it's not actually showing up in the list of managed objects in the management group. It may require you to remove both domains from the management group, and then add back the first domain.…

=96= revised updates on 9/9 and =114 on 9/2? Wow! (I had not yet noticed, or heard about, that.) Yes, 96 revised updates would definitely have created that kind of activity, and it sounds like you do not have any Automatic Approval rules enabled, so auto-approving revisions is really the only other thing that can account…

Going forward is there anything a can do from patch manager in the way of maintenance to keep the database as small as possible? * Perform regular maintenance on the WSUS server to keep the WSUS content as small as possible. * Remove dead computers from the Managed Computers node, and from Active Directory if you're using…

but failed on all DSS with the error message "unable to contact the host on port 139.....etc". I think the problem come from the stringent firewall rules on both site. I would agree. One or more ports required to communicate with the server to distribute the certificate is blocked. So if i take example of the integration…

Then you should not have received the errors. When you created the Update Server registration, did you explicitly check the SSL option on the registration form?

Trusted Publishers is a key location where the cert needs to exist on all systems, but I'm not aware that this should impact your ability to distribute it. (The only thing that should exist in Trusted Root is the certificate of the CA.) First step is to verify that the Patch Manager server does have the correct certificate…