AClient "Resource Discovery" and Push

harryf · 02-10-2009, 06:08 PM

Hey,

Due to our early adoption of DS 6.9 SP1 and a related DAgent upgrade (to standardize the agent we use), we lost a hell of a lot (>500 out of ~3500) PC's from our DS database over Christmas thanks to the 31day purge rule we have (coupled with DAgent's horrible connectivity problems).

NS has the ability to compare itself with AD and push the NS client to PC's in AD but not in NS.
Our AD is pretty well maintained. I want a way (hard, easy, whatever!) to do the same in DS; compare DS database with AD (or even NS..) and deploy DAgent (we now have a beta, stable version) to those not in the DS console.

Thanks in advance!

Nick · 02-10-2009, 07:56 PM

What about creating a collection, within the NS, of systems that do not have the dagent executable installed then create a software delivery job to install the aclient to that collection?

harryf · 02-10-2009, 07:58 PM

Thanks for the reply

I wish it was that easy mate. The problem is DAgent >EXISTS< in full on these clients. Hell, in most cases, the service is STARTED and yet there is no connectivity with the server.

Because of this (the fact the service is started and the files exist), the only way I can accurately target the machines I want to (AFAIK) is to query the DS database directly and compare it with a "better" source of truth, eg AD or NS.

Nick · 02-11-2009, 07:28 AM

That does present a bit of a problem.

Is it safe to say then that your NS will have a client on the systems that are giving you issue?

I'm just brainstorming here but you could possibly use a sql query against the express (or whatever your DS database is named) database for a list of all the managed systems. You could then make a clone of the "All Windows 32 computers" collection or whichever collection in the NS would be more appropriate. Then edit the sql of that collection with each entry from the DS using a "NOT LIKE" clause. It might even be possible (pretty sure it is) to write a sql query that uses both tables directly to give you the results.