Downloading scan data outside of Shavlik Protect
I currently am unable use Shavlik Protect 9.0 online. I need to update the scan data so that I can scan my network for the most recent patches. Is there a way to downalod the latest information outside...
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Agent Manager in Protect version 9.
Purpose The purpose of this document is to assist in locating the Agent Manager within Shavlik Protect version 9. Cause The Agent Manager has been removed. All functionality is available from within...
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How to Schedule Scans for a Specific Occurance/Date
PurposeThis document outlines how to schedule scans to occur on specific occurances of a specific day or a specific date.Example: The First Sunday of the Month.Example: The 20th of the Month....
View ArticleShavlik reporting
I would like to run a report on a few server to show all install patches on the server.I have looked through the predfined reports and dont seem to be able to fine one that shows installed patches on a...
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Custom Action - Error 3: The system cannot find the path specified.
SymptomWhen performing a custom action that includes a 'Push File' action, an error occurs: ...: Error 3: The system cannot find the path specified. Error in ST.Protect.Native:DeployMachine...
View ArticleTomcat 6.x Patches Break Tomcat
FYI, we have our Tomcat installations located on E:\Tomcat. We've never been able to get patching using Shavlick to work properly for the last three patches released for Tomcat 6. The patch seems to...
View ArticlePDFCreator by PDFforge - how to exclude
I'm looking to exclude PDFCreator from the Full Scan Template but do not see it listed, am I missing it somwhere? Thanks,Jason
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How Role Based Administration Works
PurposeThis document explains the capabilities of Role Based Administration in Protect. Explanation of Role Based AdministrationYou can assign different roles to different users of Shavlik Protect ....
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How to setup Email Operations in Shavlik Protect
PurposeThis document outlines how to setup Email Operations for email notifications in Shavlik Protect StepsIn Protect choose Tools> Operations >Email.The E-mail tab enables you to specify if...
View ArticleI need help creating a custom patch to deploy on multiple servers
Hi everyone, A guy in my team needs to deploy a Microsoft KB (KB2520487) on all our Windows 2008 servers. I visualized the "How to create a custom Patch" page, but i'm not sure if this is the right...
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How to remove machines from Scheduled Tasks Manager machine list
PurposeThe Scheduled Tasks Manager contains a list of machines that have been discovered in Protect. This document outlines how to remove machines from that list to cut down on the overhead cost of...
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Scheduled Task Fails With Error -1066598274
Symptom Scheduled scans fail to initate at its scheduled time.The Scheduled Tasks Manager Log tab shows an error in the Status column: -1066598274 CauseScheduled tasks are ran by the Local System...
View Articlepdfcreator update included pdfarchitect
It was automatically installed on machines that did not have pdfarchitect already installed, it also enabled itself as the default pdf reader. My bad for not finding this during testing but can you...
View ArticleLast 5% of scans take forever
This seems to happen with every scan I run. The first 95% of machines scanned during any scan go by very quickly, however the last 5% take a rediculous amount of time. Right now I'm scanning 229...
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Scanning Error - Status: Error Code 4 Machine Filtered in its Machine Group
Template SymptomsIn Version 9.0 When performing a scan, a machine is skipped with theError Code: 4andStatus: Machine resolved multiple times; skipping this one. In version 9.1 the error will show:...
View ArticlePatch Calendar
Is there any way to do a patch calendar from the Scheduled tasks? I need to know which Machine Group is patched at what time. I've looked at this (not optimal) KB:...
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