Patching only using weekend pushes
Does anyone have any best practices for patch deployment when the only avaialble time that patches are going to be allowed is Saturday Evening through Monday Morning? I've tried using...
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Successfully patched machines still showing as vulnerable
On any patch repair jobs I deploy, the machines that have successfully installed the patch still show as vulnerable. I deployed the patch(es) with a scan and repair setting that includes...
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Detect pending reboot on Windows servers
Hello. I'm currently writing a batch script to handle patching of Windows servers. I'm using a batch script to run vulscan because I want to leave some evidence / logging on the local server to show...
View ArticleFilter only patches for OS
Hello I was wondering if anyone created a custom filter to weed out everything but strictly MS OS patches. I want to exclude Exchange, SQL, .net, etc.I would like to know if this is possible as i...
View ArticleLDMS 9.5 "Gather Historical Information" crashing everytime
As the title states "Gather Historical Information" is crashing during the task towards the end at "Removing historical information more than 30 days old ...". The console crashes every time at this...
View ArticleVulscan UI doesn't show after upgrade to 9.5
Prior to upgrading to 9.5 I was able to do an "execute file" action during provisioning to kick off vulscan and install needed patches. I had the show UI option set to true so our techs could see the...
View ArticleQuery to show machines that require one or more patches?
Recently, I have been tasked with creating reports for 55 different K-12 School buildings that notify the Principals of each building on what computers require a patch scan (ie, laptops that don't get...
View ArticleMicrosoft Patches Question
Through Security and Patch Manager when you download the Microsoft security patch definitions does it down load all aspects of that patch? If not, do you have to go into the definitions properties to...
View Articlefailed to download file
I have recently moved my patch folder to a different drive on the same server. I was able to download a few patches after I performed this task but now every patch I attempt to download comes up saying...
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Manual patch content not showing as downloaded
Hello, I am having an issue where manually downloaded patches are not showing as downloaded when looking at the properties of a patch on our new 9.5SP1 core. I have changed the Patch location to our...
View ArticleDetecting Vulnerabilities / How do you configure the clients local scheduler...
Can someone please clarify method 2 below? How do you configure the clients local scheduler service? Should this be scheduled nightly? Best Known Methods Security and Patch Manager *Scanning Methods...
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LANDesk Definition Servers - are they down?
Have Microsoft's Out-of-Band patch releases brought LANDesk's servers down?Does anyone else get this right now? "You have not specified a valid site from which to download updates. Please verify your...
View ArticleServer Patching
Is there a best practices for patching servers with LANDesk? Right now we use Automatic Updates, which I will be replacing with LANDesk patching. I am going to schedule repair tasks to run on the...
View ArticleAfter upgrade to 9.0 sp2 getting - "Console Initialization Error: Server did...
After I upgrade the core to SP2 (version 9.0) I'm now receiving the following error trying to log into the console - "Console Initialization Error: Server did not recognize the value of HTTP Header...
View ArticleVulscan failing to run (User does not have admin rights)
Hello, In our organization we have custom shortcuts that run a vulscan against a patch group and repairs any patches found in that group. The command is below:...
View ArticleError Failed: Another instance of the agent is running when run...
Hi,Got error Failed: Another instance of the agent is running when manually run Security/compliance scan from console.LDMS version 9.0 SP2
View ArticleLandesk Shutdown window
One user out of hundreds I have is getting a LANDesk shutdown window unlike any of the other Security manager and patch windows. Its titled LANDesk System Shutdown and gives a 10 minute countdown to...
View ArticleVulScan causing prompt for Sharepoint Login
We have an interesting issue that may be arising in our environment. First, we have SharePoint here and when users hit a there home page they are automatically logged into the SharePoint site by...
View ArticlePatch Failed on LD 9...
Created a new patch in LDMS9.0 that is just a msi installation with /qn. We have similar patches in LDMS8.8 so the syntax should be good to go, BUT I am getting the following message - All Patches...
View ArticleLDAPPVulnerability Comsuming High CPU
Hi All, Now we facing problem with worker process in IIS that use CPU source. I already try had changes on LDAPPVulnerability parameter as discussion in this forum suggested. We are using LDMS version...
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