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I would assume that it is using the solarwinds WMI agent to issue the WMIC command wmic os where Primary='TRUE' reboot

If you delete the third party updates you arent using in patch manager it will delete the content saved in that folder. If you delete the content there, the packages will fail to install when called upon. I would not delete anything in that folder manually. Back when I first took over patch manager a few years ago that…

have you ever had them succeed? Have there been any alerts on your firewalls? Its pretty common im my experiance for sonicwalls (and im sure others) to spam syn flood alerts from patch manager inventory tasks. Heres the ports used in case the traffic is being blocked Server and console components use port 4092 TCP Servers…

Are you syncing adobe updates from the solarwinds catalog or from the adobe catalog? I forget what the solarwinds catalog adobe updates are for but they are not what you want to be using. Make sure you sync the solarwinds and any other catalog you need. As for 2.1.3, i have 1 server with 2.1.0 and one with 2.1.3 and I dont…

Personally I do not expire updates. I schedule the server cleanup wizard to run every sunday to remove superceded updates in case I forget to do it manually. Every week I try to remember to go through and sort all updates by supercedence and either delete third party or decline microsoft updates that are no longer needed.…

I dont really understand. They auto deploy when a PC makes contact with the WSUS/Patch Manager server. It seems like you are making the task way harder than it should be. If you really wanted to pre-install you could load them during OSD via MDT or SCCM or whatever but really all you need to do is set the update GPO to…

ive heard that a dot update will be coming late this fall. Well see if that happens. I personally think PM has just been a cash cow solarwinds is milking after they purchased it from eminentware and if it dies, it dies, and i doubt they would mind. As long as people keep buying that NPM. Not only has there been no movement…

Really get the demo and try it out. There is definitely a learning curve to creating packages that arent in a catalog already and its not easy or intuitive. Also solarwinds will not help you with any packages made yourself. That said, the ones that are in the catalogs are quite easy to manage. Reporting is awesome and if…

Yes, I have the same error on several machines but some have installed ok.

First off the orion info is just pretty to look at. I even went so far as to uninstall the orion stuff on my server because it was so useless. When you go to the MMC there are reports that you can create. You can create a report to check daily, or whenever you like, for failed updates and then there is an option to have…

Shavlik is good and has more out of the box third party catalog support than patch manager has. The easiest and largest catalog in me experience is probably PDQ deploy. Solarwinds patch manager is pretty good for third party catalog out of the box support though and you can create custom packages even if that process can…

Since nobody has answered this for you ill chime in. I do not think this is possible. You can auto publish but not auto approve. I would believe its because you can add or remove target groups and it wouldnt know what to approve for? 

The agent is also used if you want to only have the 1 port open rather than the dynamic ports. You can use the regular client components for workgroup computers without the agent also, you dont need the agent for non domain PCs, its just there as an option.

Its really simple IF you know where to look for it. On the left its under Patch Manager System Configuration, then Security and User Management, then the tab for Security Roles. Then click on whichever account type you want ( I assume its Eminentware Enterprise Administrators )and on the right click Add Navigate to your AD…

I dont use system center but does it work if you push it from the patch manager console without going through SCCM?

Seeing a previous post with an answer from Lawrence Garvin. Im not sure if its still totally accurate since it was a few years ago but Patch Manager doesnt really ever change much, so its likely still good Installing Patch Manager without internet access Re: Installing Patch Manager without internet access Lawrence Garvin…

There are actually very few exclusive updates... but there are definitely updates that have to reboot before all other updates are done and can take several "rounds" of reboots to complete all, especially if you are only patching once a month. Currently patch manager is working on a "patch until its done" system but for…

im actually pretty surprised to not see more hard drive platter mirrors. I cant be the only one who uses them to see whos coming up behind them am I?

If you have a slow WAN then yes youll probably want downstream WSUS servers in those locations. The Automation servers just manage the patch manager tasks (like inventory, discovery, etc) IIRC. I have 6 locations across north america and only 1 PAS with no downstream servers and it works well, so I wouldnt say you HAVE to…

I believe I got that one time. It was for a bunch of Adobe stuff iirc. The email notice I believe comes from your end. If you set it to 1 hour, youll get it once an hour. Why you got it a bunch of times would be on solarwinds side id imagine.

Custom packages are tricky. If you havent seen this yet I would check it out Deploying Custom Packages with Patch Manager

Im not sure if its just me but even with the proper downloads it still doesnt accept the java installer. I put in a support ticket but got someone who english is not their primary language and has no clue what im talking about, which is odd since the tech support is usually very good, but this guy was useless. Anyway, long…

I answered in your other thread but no, Orion is not useful for Patch Manager, it is done all in the MMC view which does contain the feature you want.

There are multiple catalogs. Make sure you have skype selected in the correct one.

I cant think of a way to have SPM do this for you. I would think using GPO would be a better way to do that if you dont have a print server, or extracting the driver, pushing that out to everyone via some CLI tools and then creating login scripts to map the printer.

Here is what I think is happening? You are deleting third party updates from Administration and Reporting > Software Publishing instead of from Update Services > SERVERNAME > Updates. If im right you are deleting the package from the sync of the catalog and not from the approved/published section. When the server syncs…

you just need to call cmd first so it should look more like this /c wmic product where "name like 'Java 8%%''" call uninstall /nointeractive

Are you talking about here maybe? Select your server and then right click and select configure or add wsus server. Then test the connection and save

I dont think it can be done....yet....Its kind of already a feature request and is on the "Product Roadmap" for future changes, but in all honesty there really isnt much development done on this so who knows if or when that would be possible