Windows Installer Exit codes

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Usefull links

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Activate the Diagnostics without showing the NSCLient Icon

'vbscript
dim client
set client = CreateObject ( "Altiris.AeXClient" )

dim sessmgr
set sessmgr = client.SessionManager

'Client Diagnostics
sessmgr.ActivateObject ( "{E8B8B9D4-A461-4E19-9F14-B72E5110F631}" )

'Network Diagnostics
sessmgr.ActivateObject ( "{1D588FDC-D1DA-40DD-99F7-D43D161F043E}" )

'Power Management
sessmgr.ActivateObject ( "{2C71C589-25C8-4D5B-8FD2-68B376566601}" )

Ports and Protocls

Want to find out more about the ports and protocols for DS 6.X?

Check out this Altiris White Paper AKB5447

System Tokens

Here you can find the SYSTEM Tokens you can use for DS

DEPWPT120611

Batch file which will reconnect inactive Deployment Agent for Windows

KB Article : AKB5705

 

Question:

Sometimes administrators are not sure why aclient machines are not connected to the deployment server. Often times this is because the user has shut down the service.  What can an administrator do?

Answer:

Run this Sql Query on against the database:
This batch file will need to be modified to stop and then start the service to reconnect the clients that think they are connected but are not actually connected.

Note:  this must be run as a domain administrator to allow proper authentication to restart the aclient service.

Also note the OSQL statement may need to be modified if a remote SQL server exits or use SQL authentication to access the express database.


Example Batch file:

rem This will query the eXpress database for computers that are not connected and for each one will attempt to connect to the computer and start the aclient service.

for /f %%i in ('osql -E -d eXpress -h-1 -Q "set nocount on;select name from computer where computer_id not in (select computer_id from sessions)"') do sc \\%%i start aclient

Change IP Address for PXE

In this White Paper you can find the way to change the IP Address for a PXE Server.

Altiris AKB2401.

Or try this:

Change Altiris Deployment/PXE IP adress.
Stop All Altiris DS services.
Change IP i these Files:
C:\Program Files\Altiris\eXpress\Deployment Server\default.cfg
C:\Program Files\Altiris\eXpress\Deployment Server\PXE\PXE.ini
C:\Program Files\Altiris\eXpress\Deployment Server\aclient.inp
and the %name%\%name%.bdc Files under
C:\Program Files\Altiris\eXpress\Deployment Server\Bootwiz\config\

Start Altiris DS Services.
Change Bootdisks IP
Start DS Console (Not Webconsole)
Open PXE Configurator
Mark The Bootdisk you want to change
Select Make Boot Files
Change The line (set CONIP=-ip192.168.0.1) in autoexec.bat and startnet.bat
Right click on Th Bootdisk an select Make Boot File
Close and Repeat For all Bootdisks

Just an add-on to this excellent article.As I installed PXE Server after changing IP, there were no \PXE\PXE.INI to change in, and the PXE Server Service refused to start after the installation. I sorted it out by changing adress in \PXE\RPC.ini as well. Then PXE.ini gets created automatically, and the service started as it should.

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