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Patch discovery failing

Hi 

I've followed all the troubleshooting tips from this post

http://www.itninja.com/question/what-to-do-when-detect-failures-in-patching

However over half my agents are failing to complete patch detection, according to Kace appliance.

The detection seems to continue for ages (hours/forever?) on the failing machines - so assume this may be a timeout on the appliance just giving up on the slow clients?

Looking at my laptop (one of the "broken" machines) shows that a detect which started at 10:30 is still running at 1400.  So something is clearly wrong here.  

kpatch.out files are flicking in and out with kpatch.out.lastdetect file showing 

puid={B1DA7B15-B82C-4437-8F5A-3FAC0AEFE602}
detect_result=1
error=0
plpFilename=790C97CC-E622-4756-8621-E45095C9FB25.plp

For example so I assume this is ok..?

I've tried reinstalling the agent to no avail.  Any ideas?

Thanks.

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Posted by: Darkplace 7 years ago
Orange Senior Belt
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Further to this...all agent actions (force checkin/run now/patch reporting etc...) seem to takes ages since upgrading to v7.  Anyone else notice this...I'm rebooting the KACE appliance just in case the appliance is to blame...
Posted by: brucegoose03 7 years ago
5th Degree Black Belt
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What does your Security > Patching page show for you subscription? 
is it showing expired? i noticed that mine was doing that today, and i don't think it's just me. 

Comments:
  • Thanks for the reply...my catalog updated last night as per my schedule.

    Nothing i can see in the Security->Patch Management shows anything has expired.

    I tried changing the detect schedule last night just in case this would kick things in - I extended the timeout to 5 hours...nothing seemed to help. - Darkplace 7 years ago
  • Just looked for common factors - nothing I can see...affects clients and servers alike, have servers working and broken on the same VLAN...grrrr! WIndows 7-10, Server 2008,RS,2012,2012R2

    Also nothing useful in the logs on the endpoint...although this is probably my lack of log reading skill ;) - Darkplace 7 years ago
    • If your patch detect is taking longer than an hour and you're not on 7.0, then you probably are hitting the timeout. But, you said you extended the timeout ot 5 hours, so it sounds like you're on 7.0 since that's now an option.
      Post your latest kpatch.log from a machjine that failed and maybe we can figure out what it's doing.
      If not, it might be best to check with support. - brucegoose03 7 years ago
      • I don't see any kpatch.log file - I've enabled loggin by add debug=true to the amp.conf (i also set this using the script - but I manually checked as was not getting a file) and restarted the konea service - Darkplace 7 years ago
      • Old habits, i meant KAgent.log in C:\ProgramData\Dell\kace\user - brucegoose03 7 years ago
Posted by: Darkplace 7 years ago
Orange Senior Belt
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Ah thought so ;)

Strangely the machines which were not working since last Thursday are now reporting back.  They are taking a very long time to complete...started at 1530 and finishes at 1945...maybe that was the issue?

Anyways thanks for the assist.

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