The details in the logs are similar to the following excerpt :. Module: w3wp. Source: Altiris. Description: Failed to perform a collection membership update on the collection 'All Computers eb3a1ae1cbfe4ec '. An unhandled exception has occurred. Exception Details: Altiris. AeXException: Full membership update failed. Patch Management Inventory settings: Default Window Hello Jim, 10 minutes? For all of these 4 settings? Are they all updated 'Always' or 'Only if Those settins you have specified are fine if not a little agressive.
What I meant was, that data Hello, Thanks Kyle and Jim. Kyle your modified script did the job, thanks. That's an option, but a lot of hassle to compile all the patches together each month. But hey, wha Collections updated before Software Update Agent proceeds with install.
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Are they all updated 'Always' or 'Only if changed' by default? Migration User Oct 21, AM. Could you please provide me the source code of " UpdateAllCollections. JoeVan Apr 05, PM. Migration User Apr 01, AM. KSchroeder Mar 26, PM. KSchroeder Mar 25, PM. Migration User Mar 25, AM. Hannah Massie Mar 24, PM. Appreciate the difficulties. Migration User Mar 24, AM.
Hannah Massie Mar 24, AM. Ah jaffa cakes - my favorite! I often use notification policies to run SQL scripts to make changes to database or force updates to the database. In essence the Policy query is the SQL script that makes the necessary update, the schedule is when it runs, and I leave it without an action. Keeps it internal to the NS Cheers Steve.
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Attached to today's article is a zip which contains the SQL and batch file discussed below. Membership Update Methods When you create a new collection, the first thing you do is decide whether the collection is going to be updated manually, or automatically. The Collection Update Schedules As mentioned above, there are two types of updating strategies collections can use -automatic and manual.
Below is screenshot from a production NS Server, From the above we see that, The Delta Update schedule is configured for 15 mins and 45 mins past the hour The Policy Change schedule is configured for on the hour and on the half hour The Always Refresh schedule is configured for 2.
Collection Delta Update Schedule Updates all collections which are in use if there is any new or modified inventory since the last collection update Always Refresh Collection Update Schedule Updates all in use collections regardless of inventory status or any of the previous settings. Referencing Collections in T-SQL So, it seems for most day-to-day tasks we're safe, collections are updated in a sane manner, even if we use includes and excludes. However, there is another way in which we might reference collections for software rollouts -within custom T-SQL code directly, Where here I show as an example a collection targeted by the policy to rollout Adobe Digital Editions.
Standard Methods for Forcing Collections to Update Automatically As you might expect, this problem has been around for a while. Altiris KB offers two approaches for forcing collections to update, Associate them with a Policy You can create a dummy software package which does nothing, and create an active policy which runs in say A New Method for Forcing Collections to Update Automatically You'll be pleased to know that riding on the blissful wave of a Jaffa cake sugar rush, I came across a neat way to ensure all your collections get updated in a friendly manner.
Here's a list of facts which I mulled over in the thought process, There is a stored procedure spGetCollectionUpdateList. This provides a list of all collections due to be updated on the automatic update schedules Nested collections also known as sub collections will update automatically if their root parent collection is updated There exists an Altiris utility UpdateAllCollections.
We can then build our list of collections which won't be automatically updated by, Creating a table of collections configured with the automatic membership update method from within the folder hierarchy Exclude from this table all collections which are nested sub collections will be updated when their parent is Exclude from this table all collections which are already targeted by an active policy, and therefore scheduled to update on the delta update The result is a table of collections which if we updated would ensure when combined with a delta update that every collection within the specified folder hierarchy is updated.
Notes: To amend this script for you environment just set the RootFolder variable to the GUID of the folder you use to store your software rollout collections.
The result will contain all collections which won't be updated automatically. This batch file will, Call sqlcmd. Made available here for convenience And with that, I wish you all the best with your collections!
Kind Regards, Ian. Statistics 0 Favorited. Download Document. Please accept the terms of the copyright associated with this attachment before downloading it. Click the link below to read the terms. Tags and Keywords. Oct 22, AM. Don't have the source code I'm afraid. Wish I had!!! Migration User. Oct 21, AM. Apr 05, PM. Ian, Thanks for taking the time to write this up and share your hard work. I found this article quite enlightening! Joe Van. Apr 01, AM. Great article, I was on task to write something similar for the other engineers here at work, but this was more than enough information to get out to my teammates!
Thanks for taking the time to write this up! Mar 26, PM. I don't see what this has to do with Ian's article. Take your spam elsewhere! Mar 25, PM. I think my favorite part is that whether to tax Jaffa cakes or not went to the court system. And they say the US court system is ridiculous! Ian you deserve a crate of jaffa cakes for your efforts Thanks C. Mar 25, AM. Thanks for sharing Ian Great info for admins! Hannah Massie.
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