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julien57
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Registration: Oct 28, 2015 - 10:54

October 28, 2015 - 11:15

:D Hello everyone,

Julien, 27 years old,
I am currently tasked with testing a WAPT installation on a small network of 30 machines (XP, Win7 32 and 64) before potentially deploying it to a larger network. The server is a Windows 7 32-bit workstation with an i3 3.3GHz processor, 4GB of RAM, and a gigabit connection.

I have a few quick questions:
  • Some machines never show up in my console. Do you know why? (Note: the Windows firewall is disabled on all machines.)
  • In my interface, some entries appear in "TO-UPGRADE" status, and when I select the row, all the rows on the right are OK except for one row containing the Hostname. I've already tried updating the row manually, and that works without any problem. But a few seconds later, the row reverts to "TO-UPGRADE"
    TO-UPGRADE Error
    TO-UPGRADE Error
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  • Is it possible to add a post manually in the administrator interface?
  • Can we create groups of machines in the administrator interface to organize the different workstations?
Here are all my questions to start with; I'm sure others will come with time.
Thank you for your time and help.
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sfonteneau
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Registered: July 10, 2014 - 11:52 PM
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October 28, 2015 - 12:01

Hello and welcome

Can you do this for unregistered customers?

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wapt-get register


This allows you to restart a recording and, if that doesn't work, to see what went wrong

Regarding the upgrade, the image shows that workstation sta101-72-16 needs to install upd-autoclean.because it has just detected a version change in its machine package. Running "Installing updates on this workstation" should switch the workstation between an error state and a successful status

Simon
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julien57
Messages: 4
Registration: Oct 28, 2015 - 10:54

October 28, 2015 - 2:25 PM

Thank you for this answer. I will do the test
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ssamson
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Registration: June 20, 2014 - 10:29

November 2, 2015 - 5:06 PM

Hello Julien,
julien57 wrote: [*]Can we create machine groups in the administrator interface to organize the different workstations?[/list]
Yes, that's all you need:
  1. Go to the "Package Group" tab and create a group.
  2. Next, in the inventory, select the computers and right-click to "add package group"
  3. Right-click on a column name and add "groups"
  4. All that remains is to click on a column name to sort by name
Steven
Steven Samson - Tranquil IT Systems
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julien57
Messages: 4
Registration: Oct 28, 2015 - 10:54

November 3, 2015 - 3:58 PM

:) Thank you for your help. I'm starting to get the hang of the software and it perfectly meets my expectations; creating packages is also really simple.

One more quick question. Is it possible to migrate all my clients from the test server to my new production server?

:?: For example, by defining the link to the new server in one place and forcing the update via the old server? :?:
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ssamson
Messages: 245
Registration: June 20, 2014 - 10:29

November 4, 2015 - 11:10

Is it possible to migrate all my clients from the test server to my new production server?
* Simply update your wapt entry in DNS with the new IP address of the new server.
* Do not regenerate the private/public key pair to avoid having to resign the packages.
* Copy the machine packages and software packages from the old server to the production server
c:\wapt\waptserver\repository\wapt
c:\wapt\waptserver\repository\wapt-host
* Regarding the MongoDB database, there is no need to copy the MongoDB database from one server to another, since it only contains inventory information that the machines will automatically upload sooner or later (you will just have to wait a little while before everything is back).
Steven Samson - Tranquil IT Systems
Feel free to leave us your opinion on Wapt in the forum, or to answer our questionnaires :).
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julien57
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Registration: Oct 28, 2015 - 10:54

November 5, 2015 - 9:53 AM

:) Indeed, my test machines are successfully back in operation after 48 hours.

Now a new problem that apparently a lot of people are encountering.
When creating my GPO, I followed your instructions:

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http://dev.tranquil.it/wiki/WAPT_-_D%C3%A9ploiement_de_WAPT_par_GPO
But when I start my machine, nothing happens.

So I found someone on another site saying that you had to use a batch file containing

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start \\AD12010\netlogon\waptdeploy.exe
ping -n 181 127.0.0.1>null
From this point on the installation does indeed work, but if it takes more than 3 minutes (e.g., remote sites) it quits the installation before the end, and if the installation takes less than 3 minutes, the user must wait.
Is there a solution? :geek:

THANKS
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Floflobel
Messages: 135
Registration: Oct 15, 2015 - 5:32 p.m.

November 5, 2015 - 12:04

Hello,

I'm also having trouble with GPOs. When I manually run waptdeploy, it tries to search either on my domain "wapt.samdom.com/wapt/waptdeploy.exe" or sometimes on "wapt/wapt/waptdeploy.exe," even though my actual path is societe.com/wapt/waptdeploy.exe.

I can help you run just the script; please add a screenshot of your GPO.

Regards
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